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January 30, 2017

A Personal Reflection on Jewish Devotees of Psychoanalysis—and of Radical Leftism

The Jewish itch to believe in universal substitutes for Judaism.

In the early years of psychoanalysis, it was not uncommon to hear the new psychological theory referred to as “the Jewish science”; in Sigmund Freud’s inner circle of colleagues and disciples, Carl Jung was the sole Gentile. Since then, its association with Jews has not diminished. Barbara Kay, reminiscing about growing up in Toronto in the 1940s and 50s in a household where psychiatrists and psychoanalysts were venerated, explores the grip that Freud’s theories and, for others, Communism had on a generation or more of Jews:

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January 30, 2017

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    The Jewish itch to believe in universal substitutes for Judaism.

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