948
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Freud's Jewish identity, circumcision, and the theory of castration anxiety: problem or pride?

Pages 967-976 | Received 10 Aug 2014, Accepted 22 Oct 2014, Published online: 20 Nov 2014

References

  • Aggleton, P. (2007). “Just a snip”? A social history of male circumcision. Reproductive Health Matters, 15, 15–21. doi:10.1016/S0968-8080(07)29303-6
  • Aron, L. (2007). Freud's ironically Jewish science: Commentary on paper by Jill Salberg. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives, 17, 219–231. doi:10.1080/10481880701346902
  • Beller, S. (1989). Vienna and the Jews 1867–1938: A cultural history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Blum, H. P. (2010). Anti-Semitism in the Freud case histories. In A. D. Richards (Ed.), The Jewish world of Sigmund Freud: Essays on cultural roots and the problems of religious identity (pp. 78–95). London: McFarland & Company.
  • Boyarin, J., & Boyarin, D. (1995). Self-exposure as theory: The double mark of the male Jew. In D. Battaglia (Ed.), Rhetorics of self-making (pp. 16–42). Oakland, CA: University of California Press.
  • Cantz, P. (2012). Towards a biblical psychoanalysis: A second look at the first book. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 15, 779–797. doi:10.1080/13674676.2011.637167
  • Clark, R. W. (1980). Freud: The man and the cause. London: E.M. Partners.
  • Cohen, S.J.D. (2005). Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? Gender and covenant in Judaism. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Erikson, E. H. (1980). Identity and the life cycle. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. (Original work published 1959).
  • Freud, S. (1959a). Obsessive acts and religious practices. In J. Strachey ( Ed. and Trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 9, pp. 115–127). London: Hogarth Press. (Original work published 1907).
  • Freud, S. (1959b). On the sexual theories of children. In J. Strachey (Ed. and Trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 9, pp. 205–226). London: Hogarth Press. (Original work published 1908).
  • Freud, S. (1959c). Address to the society of B'nai Brith. In J. Strachey (Ed. and Trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 20, pp. 271–276). London: Hogarth Press. (Original work published 1926).
  • Freud, S. (1961a). Analysis of a phobia in a five-year-old boy. In J. Strachey (Ed. and Trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 10, pp. 3–149). London: Hogarth Press. (Original work published 1909).
  • Freud, S. (1961b). The dissolution of the Oedipus complex. In J. Strachey (Ed. and Trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 19, pp. 173–179). London: Hogarth Press. (Original work published 1924).
  • Freud, S. (1961c). Civilization and its discontents. In J. Strachey (Ed. and Trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 21, pp. 59–145). London: Hoghart press. (Original work published 1929).
  • Freud, S. (1961d). Female sexuality. In J. Strachey (Ed. and Trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 21, pp. 194–211). London: Hogarth Press. (Original work published 1931).
  • Freud, S. (1962). Some psychical consequences of the anatomical distinction between the sexes. In J. Strachey (Ed. and Trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 19, pp. 241–258). London: Hogarth Press. (Original work published 1925).
  • Freud, S. (1963). The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Oskar Pfister. In E. Freud and H. Meng ( Ed. and Trans.) Psychoanalysis and faith: The letters of Sigmund Freud and Oskar Pfister (pp. 61–63). New York, NY: Basic Books. ( Original work published 1918).
  • Freud, S. (1964a). Moses and Monotheism. In J. Strachey (Ed. and Trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 23, pp. 17–55). London: Hogarth Press. (Original work published 1939).
  • Freud, S. (1964b). An outline of psycho-analysis. In J. Strachey (Ed. and Trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 23, pp. 144–207). London: Hoghart Press. (Original work published in 1940).
  • Frosh, S. (2008). Freud and Jewish identity. Theory & Psychology, 18, 167–178. doi:10.1177/0959354307087878
  • Gay, P. (1988). Freud: A life of our time. New York, NY: W W Norton.
  • Geller, J. (2004). The psychopathology of everyday Vienna: Psychoanalysis and Freud´s familiars. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 85, 1209–12023. doi:10.1516/QDNQ-D1F4-99CE-JUEF
  • Geller, J. (2006). Atheist Jew or atheist Jew: Freud's Jewish question and ours. Modern Judaism, 26, 1–14. doi:10.1093/mj/kjj001
  • Geller, J. (2007). On Freud's Jewish body. Mitigating circumcision. New York, NY: Fordham University Press.
  • Gilman, S. (1991). The Jew's body. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Goldman, R. (1999). The psychological impact of circumcision. British Journal of Urology International, 83, 93–102. doi:10.1046/j.1464-410x.1999.0830s1093.x
  • Graf, M. (1942). Reminiscences of Professor Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 11, 465–476. doi:10.1002/j.2167-4086.2007.tb00250.x
  • Grossman, W. I. (1986). Freud and Horney: A study of psychoanalytic models via the analysis of a controversy. In A. Richards & M. Willick (Eds.), Psychoanalysis: The science of mental conflict: Essays in honor of Charles Brenner (pp. 65–87). Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.
  • Heller, T. (2003). Our bodies, our souls: A Jewish perspective on feminine spirituality. Southfield: Targum Press.
  • Horney, K. (1933). The denial of the vagina: A contribution to the problem of the genital anxieties specific to women. International Journal of Psycho-analysis, 14, 57–70.
  • Horney, K. (1999). The denial of the vagina: A contribution to the problem of the genital anxieties specific to women. In R. Grigg, D. Hecq & C. Smith (Eds.), Female sexuality. The early psychoanalytic controversies. (pp. 253–265). London: Rebus Press. (Original work published 1933).
  • Jones, E. (1927). The early development of female sexuality. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 8, 459–472.
  • Jones, E. (1961). The life and work of Sigmund Freud. London: Penguin Group.
  • Jones, E. (1999). The early development of female sexuality. In R. Grigg, D. Hecq & C. Smith (Eds.), Female sexuality. The early psychoanalytic controversies (pp. 133–145). London: Rebus Press. (Original work published 1927).
  • Loewald, H. W. (1979). The waning of the Oedipus complex. The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 27, 751–775. doi:10.1177/000306517902700401
  • Phillips, A. (2014). Becoming Freud. The making of a psychoanalyst. London: Yale University Press.
  • Pollack, M. (2011). Circumcision: Identity, gender, and power. Tikkun, 26, 100–107. doi:10.1215/08879982-2011-3011
  • Price, M. M. (2002). The introduction of a feminine psychology to psychoanalysis. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 38, 287–299. doi:10.1080/00107530.2002.10747102
  • Rangell, L. (1991). Castration. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 39, 3–23. doi:10.1177/000306519103900101
  • Reijzer, H. (2011). A dangerous legacy: Judaism and the psychoanalytic movement. London: Karnac.
  • Roith, E. (1987). The riddle of Freud. Jewish influences on his theory of female sexuality. London: Tavistock.
  • Rozenblit, M. L. (2010). Assimilation and affirmation: The Jews of Freud's Vienna. In A. D. Richards (Ed.), The Jewish world of Sigmund Freud: Essays on cultural roots and the problems of religious identity (pp. 22–34). Jefferson: McFarland.
  • Salberg, J. (2007). Hidden in plain sight: Freud's Jewish identity revisited. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives, 17, 197–217. doi:10.1080/10481880701346845
  • Schneider, S., & Berke, J. H. (2011). Freud's atonement. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 14, 531–541. doi:10.1080/13674676.2010.491967
  • Steinsaltz, A. (1999). Simple words: Thinking about what really matters in life. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
  • Wilson, S. (2002). Dying for a smoke: Freudian addiction and the joy of consumption. Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 7, 161–173. doi:10.1080/0969725022000046242
  • Yerushalmi, Y. H. (1991). Sigmund Freud's Jewish heritage. New York, NY: Research Foundation of State University of New York.
  • Zamanian, K. (2011). Attachment theory as defense: What happened to infantile sexuality? Psychoanalytic Psychology, 28, 33–47. doi:10.1037/a0022341

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.