ABSTRACT
Dr. Martin S. B Bergmann reviews some of the indications of Freud's ambivalence to Judaism. He discusses information dealing with Freud's difficulty in controlling his anger. He speculates that the Michelangelo's Moses paper may have been written at a time when Freud was trying to deal with his own anger with unfaithful disciples. Dr. Bergmann explains Freud's father's passive response to anti-Semitic attack as derived from a confidence in his own spiritual superiority, whereas Sigmund Freud himself, at age twelve, was no longer in touch with this Jewish tradition. He made a very strong case for the importance, in the analysis of any Jew, of careful study of the nature of his feelings about his Jewishness and his conflicts about it. Freud, in his discussion of his dreams, occasionally brings up Jewishness and its problems. Dr. Bergmann has reviewed the evidence suggesting that Freud's conflicts about his Jewishness made an important contribution to shaping his interests and his career.
