,Sigmund Freud's Racial Theory of Jewishness

Sigmund Freud's Racial Theory of Jewishness


 

Publication Date: January 2007

Publisher: Association for Jewish Studies; Association for Jewish Studies

Author(s): Eliza Slavet; Eliza Slavet

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: Jewish Identification; Psychology; Race; Judaic Studies

Type: Report

Abstract:

The author discusses Sigmund Freud's understanding of the Jewish people in racial terms, focusing on Freud's ideas of racial memory. The author discusses the intellectual context of these ideas in Freud's time.