Ian S. Miller: Psychoanalysis, a Defiantly Jewish Science 

IPhA 2024. Panel Presentation Antisemitism as Jew-Hatred: A Psychohistorical Enigma.
Ian S. Miller: Psychoanalysis, a Defiantly Jewish Science
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The bizarre term, “Jewish Science” has been applied to only two domains: Einstein’s physics and Freud’s psychoanalysis. The present paper is anchored in examination of a well-known Freudian joke indicative of multiple meanings; and explores its origins in the ambivalently Jewish cultural identity shared by Freud, Heinrich Heine, and Heine’s fictional character “Hirsch- Hyacinth.” The multiple meanings indicative of the joke parallel conflictual aspects of self in oscillation between idealization, derogation, awareness, and dissociation, conditioned by internalization of societal prejudice, traumatization, and the inescapable fact of Jewish identity. In presenting this joke fragment, Freud ticks all the boxes that designate psychoanalysis as “Jewish Science,” defiantly claiming the triumph of this implicit identity, itself originally emergent from societal hatred of Jews both external to psychoanalysis as well as internally, from within psychoanalysis.
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