Myth and Madness: The Psychodynamics of AntisemitismTransaction Publishers - 191 páginas The persistence of anti-Semitism and its current resurgence after a brief post-Holocaust suppression, challenge those who study human behavior to locate the causal bases of anti-Semitism and find approaches to combat it. This is an astonishing report of a nine-year study of the psychodynamics of anti-Semitism. Undertaken by Dr. Mortimer Ostow on behalf of the Psychoanalytic Research and Development Fund, it puts flesh and bones on the discussion of antisemitism in Sigmund Freud's 1939 classic theoretical study "Moses and Monotheism. "Its close adherence to case material, and application of psychoanalytic theory to historical data and cultural products, yields new insights into bigotry and equity alike. By examining prejudiced patients and their myths, Dr. Ostow shows the common threads of anti-Semitism in a variety of national and cultural settings, even under supposed optimal conditions when antisemitism is stringently controlled. The work uses the psychiatric approach, and can be read as a study of how this area of behavioral science reveals the interplay of the individual and the group, cultural background and material opportunities. The book is divided into five major segments: Psychoanalytic interpretation of anti-Semitism in the past; clinical data on anti-Semitic sentiments in a variety of personal and national settings; mythological dimensions of anti-Semitism and apocalyptic doctrines; specific anti-Semitic myths including pre-Christian early and medieval Christian, "racial" and post-modern Muslim anti-Semitism. The final segment focuses on the pogrom mentality, including the Nazi phenomenon, antisemitic fundamentalism, and black anti-Semitism. "Myth and Madness "is informed by an amazing breadth of learning: from biblical exegesis to modern sociology, from close attention to mundane patients to evaluating mythic claims of the loftiest, and at times most dangerous sort. This is a landmark effort--one that will be the touchstone for theoretical and clinical works to come. |
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... considered aliens . They are a convenient scapegoat for communal hostility . They are dif- ferent from their hosts but only slightly so . They are successful despite oppression . Unconscious roots of antisemitism include Christian jeal ...
... considered the history of antisemitism and looked into Jewish history as a source of the origins of " Jewish traits . " Judaism and Christianity , he proposed , form a cultural pair . The Jews are therefore integral to Christianity ...
... considered Jewish antisemitism , " liberal anti- semitism , " and antisemitism in family life . A splendid review of the literature on the nature and causes of preju- dice , by John Duckitt of the University of Witwatersrand , ( Duckitt ...
... considered basic and elementary . An excellent review of the history of the psychoanalytic studies of antisemitism until very recently , is given in volume 2 of the series on Current Research on Antisemitism sponsored by the Zentrum fur ...
... considered negatively with respect to white , signifying degradation , depression , defeat , immorality , wickedness , danger , and death . So that antiblack prejudice possesses its own uniqueness . From a phenomenologic point of view ...
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Study of Clinical Data | 43 |
Mythology | 63 |
Antisemitic Myths | 95 |
The Pogrom Mentality | 151 |
Conclusions | 175 |
Bibliography | 181 |
Index | 187 |
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Myth and Madness: The Psychodynamics of Antisemitism Mortimer Ostow Pré-visualização indisponível - 1996 |
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