The case of Sigmund Freud : medicine and identity at the fin de siècle, Sander L. Gilman

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Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-287) and index

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Introduction: on medicine and race -- Covert meaning of race -- Freud as a Jewish physician-scientist -- Psychoanalysis, race and identity -- Anthropological construction of the Jew and the meaning of disease -- Jews' diseases -- Cultural construction of Jewish difference and the discourse on disease -- Representing the Jewish body in the literary culture -- Gaze of the Jew -- Jews in the medicine on nineteenth-century Vienna -- Conversion, circumcision and discourse -- Conversion as a biological act -- Conversion as madness -- Jewish converts
Penises and noses -- Language and the classical world -- Degenerate foot and the search for Oedipus -- History of the Jewish foot -- Freud's footwork -- Freud's autopsy of Gradiva's foot -- Degeneration -- Seduction, parricide and crime -- Jews and criminal sexual activity -- Statistical arguments about incest -- Mixed marriages: no answer to incest -- Freud, incest and blood -- Life of a myth

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