Blacks and Jews on the Couch

Psychoanalytic Reflections on Black-Jewish Conflict

Inbunden, Engelska, 1998

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Black-Jewish relations—at the symbolic level—are in shambles, writes Cornel West. One has only to recall the 1991 Crown Heights tragedy and its aftermath to recognize to what extent Black-Jewish relations have deteriorated. The emergence of frequently anti-Semitic black demagogues like Louis Farrakhan and Leonard Jeffries and the Jewish community's turn to neo-conservatism have only made matters worse. Mistrust, ambivalence, and other negative feelings characterize much of Black-Jewish relations. Unlike most books on this topic which are written from a sociocultural, historical, and literary perspective, this anthology looks at the psychological motives, beliefs, and desires that impair relations between the two groups. For example, unresolved vulnerabilities in respective communities from the Holocaust and slavery remain driving and complex passions that still disrupt Black-Jewish relations. Psychoanalysis is a powerful conceptual tool to untangle these issues and other aspects of the larger societal race-relations problem.

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Utgivningsdatum:1998-10-30
Mått:156 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt:567 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780275956660

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ALAN HELMREICH was a freelance journalist specializing in Black-Jewish relations.PAUL MARCUS is a psychoanalyst in private practice and member of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of Autonomy in the Extreme Situation, Bruno Bettelheim, The Nazi Concentration Camps and the Mass Society.

Innehållsförteckning

Introducion: Black-Jewish Conflict by Alan Helmreich and Paul MarcusTime Line of Black-Jewish Relations by Alan Helmreich and Paul MarcusBlack-Jewish Conflict and the Regions of the Mind by Alan Hemreich and Paul MarcusIf I Am You, Then You Are Fake by C. Fred AlfordBlack Liberation and the Jewish Question by E. Victor WolfensteinBlack Myths and Black Madness: Is Black Anti-semitism Different? by Mortimer OstowRuptures in Time: The Branch that Holds the Fork in African American and Jewish American History by Maurice Apprey and Howard F. SteinUnlearning Racism at Women's Music Festivals by Cynthia Burack and Bonnie J. MorrisSpeaking the Unspeakable by Aisha AbbasiSharing the Mark of Cain: The Jewish and African American Communities in America by A. Michele MorganThe Conflict between Blacks and Jews: A Lacanian Analysis by Mark BracherBlack-Jewish Relations: A Social and Mythic Alliance by Lee JenkinsPractical Psychoanalytically Informed Suggestions for Communal Leaders for Improving Black-Jewish Relations by Alan Helmreich and Paul MarcusIndex