Was Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis his attempt to cope with the
anti-Semitism that flourished in late 19th-century Vienna? In Freud, Race, and
Gender (Princeton, £10.95, ISBN 0 691 02586 X) historian Sander Gilman
explores the complex links between Freud’s work and end of the century racial
biology, which linked Jewishness to specific forms of psychopathology.
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