Translating the Jewish Freud : psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish / Naomi Seidman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seidman, Naomi, author.

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939--Religion.

Freud, Sigmund.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939--Translations into Hebrew.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939--Translations into Yiddish.

Judaism and psychoanalysis--History.

Judaism and psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

ix, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought. This book takes a different approach, turning its gaze not on Freud but rather on those who seek out his concealed Jewishness. What is it that propels the scholarly aim to show Freud in a Jewish light? Naomi Seidman explores attempts to "touch" Freud (and other famous Jews) through Jewish languages, seeking out his Hebrew name or evidence that he knew some Yiddish. Tracing a history of this drive to bring Freud into Jewish range, Seidman also charts Freud's responses to (and jokes about) this desire. More specifically, she reads the reception and translation of Freud in Hebrew and Yiddish as instances of the desire to touch, feel, "rescue," and connect with the famous Professor from Vienna"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : in the Freud closet

Crypto-Jews

A Jewish Rosetta

Surfaces

The Jewish Freud in an age of Black Lives Matter

Touching, feeling, translating Freud

Psychoanalysis for diabetics

The Yiddish (un)conscious

A godless Jew in the holy tongue

Jews, dogs, and other animals

Out of the closet, an epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Seidman, Naomi. Translating the Jewish Freud.

ISBN:

9781503638563

1503638561

9781503639263

1503639266

OCLC:

1419447291