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Wednesday
December 15, 2010
8:30 p.m.
Racial Fever: Freud & the Jewish Question
Eliza Slavet, Ph.D.
Dr. Eliza Slavet will speak about her recently published book, RACIAL FEVER: FREUD AND THE JEWISH QUESTION (Fordham U Press, 2009), winner of the 2010 Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. In Dr. Slavet’s book, Freud’s theory of Jewishness emerges as the culmination of his work on transference, telepathy and inter-generational transmission, and on the relationships between memory and its rivals: history, heredity and fantasy. Dr. Slavet moves far beyond debates about how Freud felt about Judaism; instead she explores what he wrote about Jewishness: what it is, how it is transmitted, and how it has survived.
Dr. Eliza Slavet is currently a visiting scholar in the Anthropology Department at University of California, San Diego. She received her PhD in Literature from UC San Diego, a Master of Music from Yale School of Music and a BA from Yale University. She has taught in departments of history, literature, religious studies, and interdisciplinary study at such institutions as NYU, Queens College (CUNY), UC San Diego and Parsons School of Art and Design.
More information about Dr. Slavet and her book can be found here: http://racialfever.com
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