Dual Allegiance: Freud As a Modern Jew

353 Pages·1994·7.56 MB·English

by  Moshe Gresser

Dual Allegiance

Dual Allegiance
Freud
as a Modern Jew
MOSHE GRESSER
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gresser, Moshe, 1951-·
Dual allegiance: Freud as a modern Jew I Moshe Gresser.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7914-1811-1. - ISBN 0-7914-1812-X (pbk.)
1. Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939-Religion. 2. Judaism and
psychoanalysis. 3. Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939-Correspondence.
I. Title.
BF109.F74G74 1994 93-11648
CIP
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
For my Parents, who taught me,
and
For Ruth,
Maayan,
Tamar,
Yocheved,
and Rachel,
with hopes for the future

Table of Contents
Preface IX
Acknowledgments XI
Chapter 1: Introduction
The Division of Freud's Psychoanalytic Corpus
in Relation to his Jewish Identity 3
An Exposition of the Argument 5
The Early Period, to 1906 6
The Middle Period, 1907-22 18
The Late Period, 1923-39 20
Summary 21
Chapter 2: The Early Period
Freud's Jewish and Humanist Educations 23
The Correspondence 41
Freud's Letters to Emil Fluss 42
Freud's Letters to Eduard Silberstein 48
Freud's Letters to Martha Bernays 59
The "Nathan" Letter 59
Further Letters to Martha Bernays 87
Freud's Letters to Wilhelm Fliess 108
Freud and Herzl 122
Freud, the Fighting Jew 124
The Obituary for Hammerschlag 126
Jewish Jokes and Jewish Identity 126
Summary 129
Chapter 3: The Middle Period
Introduction 133
The Correspondence 135
Karl Abraham and Jewishness 136
Carl Jung and Mysticism 145
Jewish Tenacity 149
Letters to Oskar Pfister and Freud's
Jewishness 150
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Freud and Talmudic Dream Interpretation 153
Building the "Temple" of Psychoanalysis 154
Totem and Taboo 157
lung's "Aryan Religiosity" 159
"The Moses of Michelangelo" 163
Freud, the German Jew 166
Freud's Jewishness and Christianity 168
Sophie's Death 171
Summary 172
Chapter 4: The L21te Period
The Encounter with Death 175
The Correspondence 177
The Return of the Suppressed: Letters
from 1925 179
Statements and Letters from 1926 185
Letters in 1927 195
Georg Brandes 196
VIVO 197
Romain Rolland 198
Freud and Zionism 201
Freud and Hebrew 204
Freud, the Fanatical Jew 207
Correspondence with Arnold Zweig 208
Freud and Hebrew University 212
Origins of Moses and Monotheism 213
The 1935 "Postscript" 221
Freud the Galitzianer 225
Freud and the Student Zionist
Society, Kadimah 228
Moses and Monotheism Revisited 230
Summary 241
Chapter 5: Dual Allegiance and Modern Jewish
Identity 245
Notes 253
Selected Bibliography 291
Addendum: Freud's Kiddush Cups 303
General Index 305
Index to Sigmund Freud's Letters 325