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. |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 31
... especially grateful to Professor Yosef H. Yerushalmi , a distinguished scholar of Jewish history , who was invited to serve as our resource au- thority , but who became far more than that , a source of inspiration , en- couragement ...
... especially of Jews who are in a position to help . Needless to say we are not reassured by the fact that for American Jewry , this might well be called a golden age.1 There have been few occasions in the past when Jews have enjoyed the ...
... especially in the United States , began to question these attitudes as derogatory , unfair , and irrational . He re- lates this shift in " scientific attitude " to the rise of a black civil rights movement in the United States , and to ...
... especially in Germany and its allies , that have followed in its wake . However , we have not actively pursued the effects of the Holocaust on the survivors and their descendants , the responses to the physical and psychic trauma , even ...
... especially when it was limited to prejudice or discrimination rather than persecution . We recognized too that within other societies , such as the Nazi soci- ety , even antisemitic persecution could not necessarily be seen as ...
Índice
3 | |
Study of Clinical Data | 43 |
Mythology | 63 |
Antisemitic Myths | 95 |
The Pogrom Mentality | 151 |
Conclusions | 175 |
Bibliography | 181 |
Index | 187 |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Myth and Madness: The Psychodynamics of Antisemitism Mortimer Ostow Pré-visualização indisponível - 1996 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Passagens conhecidas
Referências a este livro
Fratricide in the Holy Land: A Psychoanalytic View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Avner Falk Pré-visualização limitada - 2005 |
Crucified with Christ: Meditations on the Passion, Mystical Death, and the ... Pré-visualização limitada |