Antisemitism

A Contemporary Introduction
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-42498-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm

Reihe: Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis

In this book, Rosine Jozef Perelberg offers a profound psychoanalytic exploration of antisemitism, revealing how unconscious mechanisms such as projection, splitting and the uncanny have contributed to historical prejudice.

Drawing on Freud's concepts of the murdered father and the dead father, Perelberg introduces the notion of the "murder of the dead father" to illuminate how antisemitism targets not merely individuals but the very foundations of symbolic order. Through her rigorous analysis of historical antisemitism and the Holocaust, readers gain insight into the psychic mechanisms underlying prejudice and the destruction of temporality and filiation. Perelberg traces the persistence of these mechanisms from historical prejudice to contemporary political discourse, showing how projection, splitting, and envy converge in antisemitic formations. By integrating psychoanalytic theory with historical evidence, literary interpretation, and survivor testimony, Perelberg reveals the profound connections between individual psychic life and collective violence, making complex ideas accessible to both specialists and general readers interested in psychology, history, and social justice.

This book is essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, historians, scholars of Jewish studies and students of Holocaust studies seeking to understand the psychological dimensions of prejudice, racism, and contemporary antisemitism through a rigorous theoretical lens.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jozef Perelberg, Rosine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Continuity and Transformation: The Major Historical Forms of Antisemitism 2. Prejudice and the Psychic Mechanisms of Hatred Chapter 3 Freud and the Psychic Foundations of Antisemitism: Foreignness and Exile 4 The Uncanny and the Structure of Antisemitism 5 Antisemitism and Literature: Representation, Ambivalence, and the Uncanny 6 The Shoah: The Limits of Representation 7 The Murdered Father, the Dead Father, and the Symbolic Order of Antisemitism 8. Psychic Mechanisms in Antisemitism: Projection, Splitting, Envy, and the Organisation of Hatred  9. After 7 October: The Reconfiguration of Antisemitism in Contemporary Discourse 10. Contemporary Antisemitism: Language, Ideology, and the Collapse of Ambivalence 11. Conclusion: The Uncanny Persistence of Antisemitism

Über Autor(innen)

Rosine Perelberg is a Distinguished Fellow, Training Analyst, former President of the British Psychoanalytical Society, Visiting Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London and Corresponding Member of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society. She was awarded the Sigourney Award in 2023. She is the author of Sexuality, Excess, and Representation: A Psychoanalytic Clinical and Theoretical Perspective (2020), Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue (2018), Murdered Father, Dead Father: Revisiting the Oedipus Complex (2015), Time, Space and Phantasy (2008).