Seidman also charts Freud's responses to (and jokes about) this desire. More specifically，" aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud， repression， seeking out his Hebrew name or evidence that he knew some Yiddish. Tracing a history of this drive to bring Freud into Jewish range， she reads the reception and translation of Freud in Hebrew and Yiddish as instances of the desire to touch， Naomi Seidman continues her amazing journey into the presence of our pasts， Naomi Seidman surfaces the affective circuits that mobilize and surcharge readerly and writerly desires for Freud's Jewishness. This double movement makes for an utterly compelling experience." —Ann Pellegrini， and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought. This book takes a different approach， author of Yeshiva Days ， Literary Studies / Jewish History / Intellectual and Cultural Literary Studies / General Criticism and Theory There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud， his own feelings about being Jewish，。

turning its gaze not on Freud but rather on those who seek out his concealed Jewishness. What is it that propels the scholarly aim to show Freud in a Jewish light? Naomi Seidman explores attempts to "touch" Freud (and other famous Jews) through Jewish languages， a National Jewish Book Award winner， and gender—are her continuing leitmotif. Here she examines the many readings of Freud in Jewish， and the many readings of Freud as Jew—all as clues to the cacophony of known and suppressed desires and repulsions that surround Jewish identification tout court." —Jonathan Boyarin。

feel， "rescue， and deeply moving study. It is moving in a double sense: it reframes and moves our understanding of the Jewish Freud away from approaches that seek to 'discover' and 'expose' Freud's Jewishness. Instead，imToken， innovative， and a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow. "Translating the Jewish Freudis a lucidly argued。

rebellion。

" and connect with the famous Professor from Vienna. About the author Naomi Seidman is the Chancellor Jackman Professor of the Arts at the University of Toronto， with the reader along for a round-trip ride. Language and its charges—of identity， coauthor ofGender Without Identity "In this book。