Introduction: Freud's Jewish Identity and Its Interpretation -- Ch. 1. Sigmund Freud and the Epistemology of Race. Freud and Race. The Mind of the Jew. The Transmutation of the Rhetoric of Race into the Construction of Gender -- Ch. 2. The Construction of the Male Jew. The Indelibility of Circumcision. Reading the Meaning of Circumcision. Circumcision and Disease. Freud and Circumcision -- Ch. 3. Jewish Madness and Gender. The Predisposition of Jews to Specific Forms of Mental Illness. Trauma and Trains: The Testing Ground of Masculinity. Reading Insanity: Male Homosexuality and the Rhetoric of Race --Conclusion: Systemic Diseases: Cancer and Anti-Semitism. Whose Cancer Is It, Anyway? Freud's Male Body as the Locus of Disease. The Circumcised Body as the Precipitating Factor for a Social Disease: Males and Anti-Semitism
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