ABSTRACT
Even in relatively early autobiographical accounts of his career Freud states that the acceptance of psychoanalysis was hampered by his being the victim of traditional European anti-Semitism. The subject of Freud as a Jew has been a touchy one, likely to arouse passions of an embattled sort. Freud was of course driven from Vienna in 1938 by the Nazi occupation of Austria, and Hitler’s regime banned Freud’s teachings. But the complications of Freud’s Jewishness have only recently come under renewed scrutiny.
