Freud and Judaism

209 Pages·1993·5.632 MB·English

by  David Meghnagi

DAVID MEGHNAGI

EDITOR
FREUD AND JUDAISM

KARNAC BOOKS
FREUD AND JUDAISM

F R E UD AND JUDAISM

edited by
David Meghnagi
including
'Death and Us'
by Sigmund Freud
introduced and translated by
Mark Solms
Foreword by
Mortimer Ostow
London
K A R N AC B O O KS
First published in 1993 by
H. Karnac (Books) Ltd,
118 Finchley Road,
London NW3 5HT
Copyright © 1993 by David Meghnagi
4Death and Us* by Sigmund Freud
translation and introduction copyright © 1993 by Mark Solms
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced,
in any form, by any process or technique,
without the prior written permission of the publisher.
British library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Freud and Judaism
I. Meghnagi, David
150.1952
ISBN 978-1-85575-002-9
Printed in Great Britain by BPCC Wheatons Ltd, Exeter
To my parents

CONTENTS
CONTRIBUTORS Xi
FOREWORD
Mortimer Ostow xv

PREFACE XXVii
1. 'Wirund der Tod9

A previously untranslated version of a paper

by Sigmund Freud on the attitude towards death 1

TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION
Mark Solms 3

'Death and Us'

Sigmund Freud 11

EDITOR'S COMMENTS
David Meghnagi 41

vii
Vlii CONTENTS
PART ONE

Judaism and psychoanalysis

A cultural event within Judaism
David Meghnagi 57
PART TWO

Historical aspects

Some thoughts on Freud's attitude
during the Nazi period
Jantne Chasseguet-Smirgel 73
PART THREE

Cultural aspects

4. The Jew as an ethical figure
Silvia VegettiFLnzi 95
5. Humour as a Jewish vocation
and the work of Woody Allen
Cesare Musatti 103
PART FOUR
'Moses and Monotheism*
The logic of Freudian research
Jorge Canestri 117
PART FIVE

Applied psychoanalytic studies

7. Psychoanalysis between assimilation
and proselytism
Giorgio Sacerdoti 133
CONTENTS lX
8. Psychopathology of everyday antisemltism
Antonio Alberto Semi 141
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES 153
INDEX 163