Anti-semitism : a history and psychoanalysis of contemporary hatred / Avner Falk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Falk, Avner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antisemitism--Psychological aspects.

Antisemitism.

Antisemitism--Germany--History--20th century.

Germany.

History.

Judaism and psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

vii, 303 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.

Contents:

Jew-hatred, Judeophobia, and anti-Judaism

What is anti-semitism?

Different types of antisemitism

Eugenics, racism, and genocide

Anti-semitism, eugenics, and racism

"Scientific" anti-semitism

Xenophobia, nationalism, and anti-semitism

Some aspects of the history of anti-semitism

Human child sacrifice and anti-semitism

Anti-semitism in antiquity

Christianity and anti-semitism

Medieval anti-Judaism

Modern Judeophobia

Martin Luther, the German Reformation, and the Jews

Modern and contemporary anti-semitism

The beginning of the twentieth century

A collective psychosis?

Jewish self-hatred

Zionism and anti-semitism

Fighting anti-semitism : Zionists and anti-Zionists

Arab and Muslim anti-semitism

Sigmund Freud and anti-semitism

Psychoanalysis and anti-semitism

Criticizing and expanding Freud's ideas

Unconscious aspects of anti-semitism

Evil : psychoanalytic perspectives

Evil, racism, and anti-semitism

The Jew's body

The inability to mourn

Individual and collective anti-semitism

The individual, the family, and anti-semitism

Collective psychological processes

"Psychological" anti-semitism

The case of John Jay Ray

"Not an antisemitic bone in my body"

"Evolutionary" anti-semitism

Japanese anti-semitism : Judeophobia without Jews

"Psychoanalytic" anti-semitism

The case of Carl Gustav Jung

The case of Masud Khan

The case of Annemarie Dührssen

The case of Jacqueline Rose

A "ferocious silence"?

Abusing psychohistory

Anti-semitism and "the Jewish science"

Nazi anti-semitism and the Holocaust

A "German-Jewish symbiosis"?

The language of the Third Reich

"Ordinary men" and "eliminatory anti-semitism"

Psychoanalytic studies of Nazism

Heinrich Himmler : bureaucratized mass murder

Were the Nazi murderers "normal"?

Holocaust disguised as "historical revision"

Holocaust denial and "historical revision"

The Garaudy affair

Jewish scholars and the Holocaust

The Hannah Arendt controversy

Zygmunt Bauman : personal history and Nazism

Contemporary anti-semitism

Recent psychoanalytic studies

Mastering the past?

Modern French anti-semitism

Holocaust survivors : "Jean Améry," Simon Wiesenthal, Leon Wieslicer

Related issues

Jews, women, and homosexuals

American anti-semitism

Literature and anti-semitism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-292) and index.

ISBN:

9780313353840

0313353840

OCLC:

191089824