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Racial Fever - by Eliza Slavet (Paperback)

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  • What makes a person Jewish?
  • About the Author: ELIZA SLAVET received her Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California, San Diego.
  • 272 Pages
  • Psychology, Movements

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What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel they have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about race without reducing it to racism or to physical differences?

These questions are at the heart of Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question. In his final book, Moses and Monotheism, Freud hinted at the complexities of Jewishness and insisted that Moses was really an Egyptian. Slavet moves far beyond debates about how Freud felt about Judaism; instead, she explores what he wrote about Jewishness: what it is, how it is transmitted, and how it has survived. Freud's Moses emerges as the culmination of his work on transference, telepathy, and intergenerational transmission, and on the relationships between memory and its rivals: history, heredity, and fantasy. Writing on the eve of the Holocaust, Freud proposed that Jewishness is constituted by the inheritance of ancestral memories; thus, regardless of any attempts to repress, suppress, or repudiate Jewishness, Jews will remain Jewish and Judaism will survive, for better and for worse.



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. . . a fine addition to the literature on Freud's engagement with Jewishness, and to the politics of psychoanalysis.-- "--Psychoanalysis and History"

. . . Smart and engaging.-- "--Shofar"

Slavet examines Sigmund Freud's final book, Moses and Monotheism, and its baffling contention that an unconscious historical memory as deeply rooted as any genetic inheritance explains the dogged persistence of the Jewish people.-- "--Harper's Magazine"

Slavet's work opens up avenues for getting out of the deadening loop of questions about religious and racial authenticity that have historically plagued the study of these groups: are they 'really' Jewish?-- "--Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal"

Eliza Slavet's Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question (Fordham, September), Freud understood Jewishness as inherited, genealogically, and that he believed a form of memory passes physically--without the conscious knowledge of its recipients--from one generation to the next. Slavet parses these difficult claims, arguing that they shed light on some contemporary debates about Jewish identity.-----Josh Lambert, On the Bookshelf, The Tablet



About the Author




ELIZA SLAVET received her Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California, San Diego.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x .8 Inches (D)
Weight: .97 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 272
Genre: Psychology
Sub-Genre: Movements
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Theme: Psychoanalysis
Format: Paperback
Author: Eliza Slavet
Language: English
Street Date: September 1, 2009
TCIN: 1005110693
UPC: 9780823231423
Item Number (DPCI): 247-01-8013
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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