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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... response to the work of a study group addressed to the subject , organized and supported by the Psychoanalytic Research and Development Fund . We hoped that the application of the psychoanalytic method to case material , and the ...
... response of horror . In fact , as early as 1909 , in the Little Hans paper , he suggests that the Jews are despised because of circumcision since " the deepest uncon- scious root of antisemitism is the castration complex . " In 1921 ...
... response to antisemitism and a defense of the Jews . He bases his argument partially on the fact that one can recognize in the text a point by point refutation of Werner Sombart's anti - Jewish arguments in his 1911 book The Jews and ...
... response to universal revulsion at Nazi antisemitism , the emphasis shifted from common dynamic mechanisms to particular deformed personality structures that favor such mechanisms . During the sixties and seventies the emphasis shifted ...
... responses to the physical and psychic trauma , even though two of the leaders of this particular field of study , Martin Bergmann and Milton Jucovy partici- pated actively in our group . Perhaps the most important lesson that we learned ...
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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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