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“Sigmund Freud as a Jew”: A study in ambivalence and courage

1971; Wiley; Volume: 7; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/1520-6696(197110)7

1520-6696

Peter Loewenberg,

Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology

Journal of the History of the Behavioral SciencesVolume 7, Issue 4 p. 363-369 Article "Sigmund Freud as a Jew": A study in ambivalence and courage Peter Loewenberg, Peter Loewenberg University of California This essay is dedicated to the members and Clinical Associates of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, who carry on Freud's heritage as a scientific explorer and a healer and who have shared with me the opportunity to study his craft.Search for more papers by this author Peter Loewenberg, Peter Loewenberg University of California This essay is dedicated to the members and Clinical Associates of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, who carry on Freud's heritage as a scientific explorer and a healer and who have shared with me the opportunity to study his craft.Search for more papers by this author First published: October 1971 https://doi.org/10.1002/1520-6696(197110)7:4 3.0.CO;2-WCitations: 8 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat References 1 Freud to Arnold Zweig, February 20, 1929, The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Arnold Zweig, ed. L. Freud Ernst, trans. Elaine and William Robson-Scott (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1970), p. 6. Hereafter cited as Freud-Zweig Correspondence. 2 The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. trans. James Strachey, et al (London: Hogarth Press, 1953). Hereafter eited as S.E., IV, 197. 3 Ernst Simon, " Sigmund Freud, the Jew," Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook II (London: East and West Library, 1957), p. 272. Hereafter cited as Simon. 4 Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Vol. I, The Formative Years and the Great Discoveries. 1856–1900 (New York: Basic Books, 1953), p. 19. 5 Jones, I., 167; and Jones, The Years of Maturity, Vol. II of The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (New York: Basic Books, 1955), p. 17. 6 Freud to Arnold Zweig, December 2, 1927, Freud-Zweig Correspondence, p. 3. 7 Jones, II, 15. 8 Carl E. Schorske, "Politics and the Psyche in fin de siècle Vienna: Schnitzler and Hofmanns that," American Historical Review, Vol. 66 (July, 1961), pp. 930–946. 9 Freud to Fliess, November 8, 1895; and February 9, 1898 in Sigmund Freud, The Origins of Psycho-Analysis: Letters to Wilhelm Fliess, Drafts and Notes: 1887–1903. eds. Marie Bonaparte, Anna Freud, Ernst Kriss (New York: Basic Books, 1954), No. 35, p. 133, and No. 83, p. 245. Hereafter cited as Origins. 10 Freud to Fleiss, October 31, 1897, Origins, No. 73, p. 227. 11 Simon, p. 292. 12 cf., Carl L. Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1932), and Josseph R. Levenson, Confucian China and its Modern Fate (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1958–1965), 3 vols. 13 David Bakan, Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition (New York: Van Nostrand, 1958). 14 Karl Abraham to Freud, May 11, 1908, A Psycho-Analytic Dialogue: The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Karl Abraham, ed. Hilda C. Abraham and Ernst L. Freud, trans. Bernard Marsh and Hilda C. Abraham (New York: Basic Books, 1965), p. 36. Hereafter cited as Freud-Abraham, Letters. 15 Freud to Abraham, July 20, 1908, Letters, p. 46. 16 Freud to Abraham, May 3, 1908, Letters, p. 34. 17 Freud to Abraham, July 23, 1908, Letters, p. 46. 19 Freud to Abraham, July 23, 1908, Letters, p. 46. 18 Jones, II, 171. 20 Freud to Abraham, July 26, 1914, Letters, p. 186. 21 Address to the Society of B'nai Brith, May 6, 1926, S.E., XX, 273. 22 Freud to Arthur Schnitzler, May 14, 1922, Letters Of Sigmund Freud. ed. Ernst L. Freud, trans. Tania & James Stern (New York: Basic Books, 1960), No. 197, p. 339. 23 Freud to Flies, Origins, No. 83, p. 245. 24 Peter Loewenberg, "A Hidden Zionist Theme in Freud's 'My Son, the Myops…' Dream," Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. XXXI, No. 1 (January-March 1970), 129–132. 25 reud to Herzl, September 28, 1902, Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem. I am indebted to Dr. Alex Bein and Dr. Michael Heymann of the central Zionist Archives for enabling me to obtain this letter and for permission to quote it. 26 Jones, I, 338. 27 "Address to the Society of B'nai B'rith?" May 6, 1926, S.E., XX, 273. Also in Letters of Sigmund Freud. ed. Ernst L. Freud, trans. Tanla and James Stern (New York: Basic Books, 1960), No. 220, pp. 366–367. 28 "Address to the B'nai B'rith," S.E., XX, 273. 29 An Autobiographical Study (1925), S.E., XX, 15–16. 30 " An Autobiographical Study," S.E., XX, 9. 31 Freud, "The Resistances to Psycho-Analysis" ( 1925), S.E., XIX, 222. 32 Bruno Bettelheim, The Informed Heart: Autonomy in a Mass Age (Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1960), pp. 217–225. Citing Literature Volume7, Issue4October 1971Pages 363-369 ReferencesRelatedInformation