Bøger af Estelle Roith

This book, documents a forgotten corner of Jewish history, one that, at the same time, sheds new light on questions about Freud that have, so far, escaped historians. In this book, the author intends to show that the part played by some Jews in the lead-up to the Anschluss in 1938 had a profound effect on Freud that, not mentioned in his writings.

Argues that certain important elements of Judaic culture were so integral a part of Freud's personality that they became visible in his work and especially in his attitudes to and theories of femininity. This work describes Freud's theory of femininity and its implications for psychoanalytic theories of human development and motivation in general.