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Author Roith, Estelle.

Title The riddle of Freud : Jewish influences on his theory of female sexuality / Estelle Roith
Published London : Routledge, 2000, ©1987

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Description 1 online resource (199 pages)
Series New library of psychoanalysis ; 4
New library of psychoanalysis ; 4
Contents Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 1 The Scope of the Enquiry; 2 Freud's Theory of Female Sexuality; 3 Freud's Women Disciples; 4 Freud's Vienna; 5 Jewish Family Psychodynamics; 6 Freudian and Rabbinic Sexual Doctrines; 7 If Oedipus was an Egyptian; Bibliography; Indexes
Summary In The Riddle of Freud Estelle Roith argues that certain important elements of Judaic culture were so integral a part of Freud's personality that they became visible in his work and especially in his attitudes to and theories of femininity. Freud's formulation of femininity, which the author contends is mistaken, is seen not as a simple error but as resulting from a complex bias in which personal and social factors are interrelated. The author proposes that the considerable ambivalence experienced by Freud about his sexual, cultural, and social identity, in which both overt and cov
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-189)
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Subject Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Views on female sexuality
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Relations with women.
SUBJECT Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 fast
Subject Oedipus complex.
Judaism -- Influence
Judaism and psychoanalysis.
Women in Judaism.
Judaism.
Psychoanalysis.
Judaism
Oedipus Complex
Psychoanalytic Theory
Sexual Behavior
Women -- psychology
Psychoanalysis
Judaism.
psychoanalysis.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality.
Psychoanalysis
Judaism
Judaism and psychoanalysis
Judaism -- Influence
Oedipus complex
Relations with women
Women in Judaism
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0203013980
9780203013984
9781134609741
1134609744