Freud and the Invention of Jewishness

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The question of Freud's relation to his Jewish heritage has become one of perennial fascination attracting philosophers psychoanalysts and students of</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Judaism. However as Betty Fuks's highly original study reveals Freud's Judaism has too often served as the pretext for a nai?ve pseudo-analysis of Freud's character or the absurd idea that psychoanalysis is a form of secular Judaism.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Fuks dismantles these reductive claims with wit and close attention to the Freudian text and offers in their place an insightful account of how Freud invented a unique relation to his own Judaism: an invention that sustained him in his splendid isolation and provided a foundation for the understanding of psychoanalysis as an experience of both subjective exile and nomination. </span></p>