Bücher von Jay Geller

Demonstrates how "circumcision" - the fetishized signifier of Jewish difference and source of knowledge about Jewish identity - is central to Freud's construction of psychoanalysis. This work depicts Freud as an ordinary Viennese Jew making extraordinary attempts to mitigate the trauma of everyday antisemitism.

Maps the dissemination of and possible interrelationships among these corporeal signifiers in Germanophone cultures between the Enlightenment and the Shoah. This book appeals to readers interested in psychoanalysis, in Jewish studies, in cultural studies, and in the whole question of "the body," which has been discussed in present years.