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DAVID MEGHNAGI EDITOR FREUD AND JUDAISM KARNAC BOOKS FREUD AND JUDAISM F R E UD AND JUDAISM edited by David Meghnagi including 'Death and Us' by Sigmund Freud introduced and translated by Mark Solms Foreword by Mortimer Ostow London K A R N AC B O O KS First published in 1993 by H. Karnac (Books) Ltd, 118 Finchley Road, London NW3 5HT Copyright © 1993 by David Meghnagi 4Death and Us* by Sigmund Freud translation and introduction copyright © 1993 by Mark Solms All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, in any form, by any process or technique, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British library Cataloguing in Publication Data Freud and Judaism I. Meghnagi, David 150.1952 ISBN 978-1-85575-002-9 Printed in Great Britain by BPCC Wheatons Ltd, Exeter To my parents CONTENTS CONTRIBUTORS Xi FOREWORD Mortimer Ostow xv PREFACE XXVii 1. 'Wirund der Tod9 A previously untranslated version of a paper by Sigmund Freud on the attitude towards death 1 TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION Mark Solms 3 'Death and Us' Sigmund Freud 11 EDITOR'S COMMENTS David Meghnagi 41 vii Vlii CONTENTS PART ONE Judaism and psychoanalysis A cultural event within Judaism David Meghnagi 57 PART TWO Historical aspects Some thoughts on Freud's attitude during the Nazi period Jantne Chasseguet-Smirgel 73 PART THREE Cultural aspects 4. The Jew as an ethical figure Silvia VegettiFLnzi 95 5. Humour as a Jewish vocation and the work of Woody Allen Cesare Musatti 103 PART FOUR 'Moses and Monotheism* The logic of Freudian research Jorge Canestri 117 PART FIVE Applied psychoanalytic studies 7. Psychoanalysis between assimilation and proselytism Giorgio Sacerdoti 133 CONTENTS lX 8. Psychopathology of everyday antisemltism Antonio Alberto Semi 141 BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES 153 INDEX 163
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