ABSTRACT
The ethnopsychoanalytic essay on the comparison of Jews and homosexuals that is about to be set forth has yet another motivation. Both Jews and homosexuals lend themselves to comparative ethnopsychoanalytic investigation. Public and private discrimination gives rise to a psychological similarity; cultural and social differences result in an ethnological strangeness between both groups, as will be elucidated soon. When assaults on individual Jews or homosexuals occurred, the courts generally treated the victims as though they were less worthy of judicial protection than were other people. The contributions of M. Erdheim on adolescence, especially his concept of the “Imago of the stranger”, or the representative of the “stranger/strangers,” first made it possible for the author to carry out this comparison and structure the similarities. A. Kardiner and L. Ovesey introduced the title in their study of the oppression of the Negro in the United States, an oppression that took place under very different historical and social circumstances.
