Old and Dirty Gods: Religion, Antisemitism, and the Origins of Psychoanalysis

by Pamela Cooper-White

Freud's collection of antiquities-his "old and dirty gods"-stood as silent witnesses to the early analysts' paradoxical fascination and hostility toward religion. Pamela Cooper-White argues that antisemitism, reaching back centuries before the Holocaust, and the acute perspective from the margins that it engendered among the first analysts, stands at the very origins of psychoanalytic theory and practice.

The core insight of psychoanalytic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415790999
• ISBN13: 9780415790994
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"