>>> Allen Esterson wrote: Freud does not suggest anti-Semitism played any role in his deciding to change his career, and nor to biographers Ernest Jones, Ronald Clark or Peter Gay, so I'm left wondering where Chris got his mistaken notion from. --------------------------- Freud may have dismissed anti-semitism's role in the development of psycho-analysis because of his desire to have psychoanalysis perceived as universal rather than as as a Jewish national movement.
see Frosh, S. (2004) Freud, Psychoanalysis and Anti-Semitism The Psychoanalytic Review, 91, 309-330 at http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/155/1/frosh1.pdf "Freud himself was very aware of what he regarded as the danger that psychoanalysis would be seen merely as a ‘Jewish national affair’, stirring up anti-Semitic resistance as well as the unavoidable resistance due to psychoanalysis’ own unpalatable truths. It was for this reason that he was especially enthusiastic about the presence of Jung in the movement, and optimistic that through Jung the future of psychoanalysis would be preserved in the outside world." Bill Scott --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=5913 or send a blank email to leave-5913-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
