Volume 33, Number 10 · June 12, 1986
The Jewish Freud
By Michael Ignatieff
Freud's Discovery of Psychoanalysis: The Politics of Hysteria
by William J. McGrath
Cornell University Press, 336 pp., $25.00
Freud and His Father
by Marianne Krull
Norton, 320 pp., $18.95
When Sigmund Freud was twelve and out walking with his father Jacob in the streets of Vienna, his father wanted to show his son how much better things had become for Jews since the days when he was a poor peddler wearing a beaver hat and a kaftan in the shtetls of Galicia. So he told his son about the time in Tysmenitz when a gentile had crossed his path on the pavement and had knocked his hat into the gutter jeering after him, 'Jew, get off the pavement.'
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