ABSTRACT
One is tempted to say that Freud could only maintain the equality of Jewish men by insisting on the inequality of “castrated” women-to a degree, and with a stubbornness, that clearly embarrasses even his most sympathetic and admiring recent biographers. Women, for Freud, become the racialized other: “The sexual life of adult women is a ‘dark continent’ for psychology.” It isn’t Jews who should summon up, for Europeans, the alien incomprehensibility of darkest Africa; it’s women.
