The “Jew”: Object of Research and “Quilting Point”

Until now I have argued that the key to the Jews’ representation in Georg Simmel’s paradigm lies in the ways in which that paradigm shapes, constructs, and analyzes its object. In this chapter, I will show that Simmel’s work takes the Jew not only as an object of research constructed by the paradigm’s research categories but also as what Lacan calls an ideological “quilting point.”