Anti-Semitism: A History and Psychoanalysis of Contemporary Hatred
In the summer of 2006, the author received a message that read, Love the Nazis, and KILL THE JEWS DEAD. And that was the trigger that launched internationally known scholar Falk into work on this book. Anti-Semitism has once again become a worldwide phenomenon, growing largely during the last decade of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st. Among the spurs for this are the migration of Muslim populations and the ongoing Israeli-Arab wars. In this far-reaching and comprehensive volume, Falk delves deeply into the current events, history, and literature on anti-Semitism, integrating insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and political science. The result is an absorbing exploration of one of the oldest scourges of humanity, spotlighting the irrational and unconscious causes of anti-Semitism.

In the summer of 2006, the author received a message that read, Love the Nazis, and KILL THE JEWS DEAD. And that was the trigger that launched internationally known scholar Avner Falk into work on this book. Anti-Semitism has once again become a worldwide phenomenon, growing largely during the last decade of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first. Among the spurs for this are migration of Muslim populations and the ongoing Israeli-Arab wars. In this far-reaching and comprehensive volume, Falk delves deeply into the current events, history and literature on anti-Semitism, integrating insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and political science. The result is an absorbing exploration of one of the oldest scourges of humanity, spotlighting the irrational and unconscious causes of anti-Semitism.

This book also features chapters on the psychodynamics of racism, fascism, Nazism, and the dark, tragic, and unconscious processes, both individual and collective, that led to the Shoah. Holocaust denial and its psychological motives, as well as insights into the physical and psychological survival strategies of Holocaust survivors, are explored in depth. There are also chapters on scientific anti-Semitism including eugenics.

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Anti-Semitism: A History and Psychoanalysis of Contemporary Hatred
In the summer of 2006, the author received a message that read, Love the Nazis, and KILL THE JEWS DEAD. And that was the trigger that launched internationally known scholar Falk into work on this book. Anti-Semitism has once again become a worldwide phenomenon, growing largely during the last decade of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st. Among the spurs for this are the migration of Muslim populations and the ongoing Israeli-Arab wars. In this far-reaching and comprehensive volume, Falk delves deeply into the current events, history, and literature on anti-Semitism, integrating insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and political science. The result is an absorbing exploration of one of the oldest scourges of humanity, spotlighting the irrational and unconscious causes of anti-Semitism.

In the summer of 2006, the author received a message that read, Love the Nazis, and KILL THE JEWS DEAD. And that was the trigger that launched internationally known scholar Avner Falk into work on this book. Anti-Semitism has once again become a worldwide phenomenon, growing largely during the last decade of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first. Among the spurs for this are migration of Muslim populations and the ongoing Israeli-Arab wars. In this far-reaching and comprehensive volume, Falk delves deeply into the current events, history and literature on anti-Semitism, integrating insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and political science. The result is an absorbing exploration of one of the oldest scourges of humanity, spotlighting the irrational and unconscious causes of anti-Semitism.

This book also features chapters on the psychodynamics of racism, fascism, Nazism, and the dark, tragic, and unconscious processes, both individual and collective, that led to the Shoah. Holocaust denial and its psychological motives, as well as insights into the physical and psychological survival strategies of Holocaust survivors, are explored in depth. There are also chapters on scientific anti-Semitism including eugenics.

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Anti-Semitism: A History and Psychoanalysis of Contemporary Hatred

Anti-Semitism: A History and Psychoanalysis of Contemporary Hatred

by Avner Falk
Anti-Semitism: A History and Psychoanalysis of Contemporary Hatred

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In the summer of 2006, the author received a message that read, Love the Nazis, and KILL THE JEWS DEAD. And that was the trigger that launched internationally known scholar Falk into work on this book. Anti-Semitism has once again become a worldwide phenomenon, growing largely during the last decade of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st. Among the spurs for this are the migration of Muslim populations and the ongoing Israeli-Arab wars. In this far-reaching and comprehensive volume, Falk delves deeply into the current events, history, and literature on anti-Semitism, integrating insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and political science. The result is an absorbing exploration of one of the oldest scourges of humanity, spotlighting the irrational and unconscious causes of anti-Semitism.

In the summer of 2006, the author received a message that read, Love the Nazis, and KILL THE JEWS DEAD. And that was the trigger that launched internationally known scholar Avner Falk into work on this book. Anti-Semitism has once again become a worldwide phenomenon, growing largely during the last decade of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first. Among the spurs for this are migration of Muslim populations and the ongoing Israeli-Arab wars. In this far-reaching and comprehensive volume, Falk delves deeply into the current events, history and literature on anti-Semitism, integrating insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and political science. The result is an absorbing exploration of one of the oldest scourges of humanity, spotlighting the irrational and unconscious causes of anti-Semitism.

This book also features chapters on the psychodynamics of racism, fascism, Nazism, and the dark, tragic, and unconscious processes, both individual and collective, that led to the Shoah. Holocaust denial and its psychological motives, as well as insights into the physical and psychological survival strategies of Holocaust survivors, are explored in depth. There are also chapters on scientific anti-Semitism including eugenics.


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ISBN-13: 9780313353857
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 06/30/2008
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 451 KB

About the Author

AVNER FALK is an internationally known Israeli scholar in the fields of psychohistory and political psychology. He trained in Clinical Psychology at the Hebrew University and practiced psychotherapy for 25 years before becoming a fulltime independent scholar. He has authored six previous books.

Table of Contents


Jew-hatred, Judeophobia, and Anti-Judaism     1
What is Anti-Semitism?     5
Different Types of Anti-Semitism     8
Eugenics, Racism, and Genocide     11
Anti-Semitism, Eugenics, and Racism     16
"Scientific" Anti-Semitism     21
Xenophobia, Nationalism, and Anti-Semitism     22
Some Aspects of the History of Anti-Semitism     25
Human Child Sacrifice and Anti-Semitism     25
Anti-Semitism in Antiquity     29
Christianity and Anti-Semitism     32
Medieval Anti-Judaism     34
Modern Judeophobia     37
Martin Luther, the German Reformation, and the Jews     37
Modern and Contemporary Anti-Semitism     40
Modern and Contemporary Anti-Semitism     47
The Beginning of the Twentieth Century     47
A Collective Psychosis?     51
Jewish Self-Hatred     53
Zionism and Anti-Semitism     55
Fighting Anti-Semitism: Zionists and Anti-Zionists     58
Arab and Muslim Anti-Semitism     60
Sigmund Freud and Anti-Semitism     67
Psychoanalysis and Anti-Semitism     67
Criticizing and Expanding Freud's Ideas     70
Unconscious Aspects of Anti-Semitism     72
Evil: Psychoanalytic Perspectives     75
Evil, Racism, and Anti-Semitism     81
The Jew's Body     81
The Inability to Mourn     83
Individual and Collective Anti-Semitism     84
The Individual, the Family, and Anti-Semitism     86
Collective Psychological Processes     91
"Psychological" Anti-Semitism     99
The Case of John Jay Ray     99
"Not an Antisemitic Bone in My Body"     101
"Evolutionary" Anti-Semitism     103
Japanese Anti-Semitism: Judeophobia without Jews     106
"Psychoanalytic" Anti-Semitism     109
The Case of Carl Gustav Jung     109
The Case of Masud Khan     112
The Case of Annemarie Duhrssen     116
The Case of Jacqueline Rose     117
A "Ferocious Silence"?     120
Abusing Psychohistory     121
Anti-Semitism and "The Jewish Science"     125
Nazi Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust     129
A "German-Jewish Symbiosis"?     129
The Language of the Third Reich     133
"Ordinary Men" and "Eliminatory Anti-Semitism"     136
Psychoanalytic Studies of Nazism     139
Heinrich Himmler: Bureaucratized Mass Murder     139
Were the Nazi Murderers "Normal"?     144
Holocaust Denial Disguised as "Historical Revision"     151
Holocaust Denial and "Historical Revision"     153
The Garaudy Affair     155
Jewish Scholars and the Holocaust     159
The Hannah Arendt Controversy     159
Zygmunt Bauman: Personal History and Nazism     162
Contemporary Anti-Semitism     167
Recent Psychoanalytic Studies     167
Mastering the Past?     169
Modern French Anti-Semitism     172
Holocaust Survivors: "Jean Amery," Simon Wiesenthal, Leon Wieslicer     179
Related Issues     193
Jews, Women, and Homosexuals     193
American Anti-Semitism     195
Literature and Anti-Semitism     199
Conclusion     203
References and Bibliography     205
Index     293
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