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The Case of Sigmund Freud Sander L. Gilman (Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago)

The Case of Sigmund Freud By Sander L. Gilman (Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago)

Summary

Focusing on the new science of psychoanalysis, Gilman looks at the strategic devices Sigmund Freud employed to detach himself from the stigma of being Jewish and shows how Freud's work in psychoanalysis evolved in response to the biological discourse of the time.

The Case of Sigmund Freud Summary

The Case of Sigmund Freud: Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siecle by Sander L. Gilman (Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago)

In The Case of Sigmund Freud, Sander Gilman traces the medicalization of Jewishness in the science and medicine of turn-of-the-century Vienna, and the ways in which Jewish physicians responded to the effort to incorporate racist biological literature into medical practice. Focusing on the new science of psychoanalysis, Gilman looks at the strategic devices Sigmund Freud employed to detach himself from the stigma of being Jewish and shows how Freud's work in psychoanalysis evolved in response to the biological discourse of the time.

The Case of Sigmund Freud Reviews

Mr. Gilman's work is the most convincing account of how Freud's anxiety about being Jewish is reflected in his work. After reading Mr. Gilman's exhaustive treatment, one cannot help seeing Freud as struggling to formulate a response to the Viennese notions of Jewishness in which he was inescapably steeped. New York Times Gilman [is] one of the most original and stimulating cultural historians of his generation... Reminds us that the best cultural history does not bring us comfortingly nearer to the past, but brings its distance from us to life. New Statesman and Society

About Sander L. Gilman (Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago)

Sander L. Gilman is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Humane Studies at Cornell University and professor of the history of psychiatry at the Cornell Medical College. [confirm]

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The Case of Sigmund Freud: Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siecle by Sander L. Gilman (Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago)
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Johns Hopkins University Press
1995-01-26
320
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