The Case of Sigmund Freud: Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siècle

by Sander L. Gilman

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In The Case of Sigmund Freud, Sander Gilman traces the "medicalization" of Jewishness in the science and medicine of turn-of-the-century Vienna, and the ways in which Jewish physicians responded to the effort to incorporate racist biological literature into medical practice. Focusing on the new science of psychoanalysis, Gilman looks at the strategic devices Sigmund Freud employed to detach himself from the stigma of being Jewish and shows how Freud's work in psychoanalysis evolved in response to the biological discourse of the time.
  • ISBN10 0801849748
  • ISBN13 9780801849749
  • Publish Date 26 January 1995
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press