Sigmund Freud and the epistemology of race. Freud and race ; Mind of the Jew ; Transmutation of the rhetoric of race into the construction of gender -- Construction of the male Jew. Indelibility of circumcision ; Reading the meaning of circumcision ; Circumcision and disease ; Freud and circumcision -- Jewish madness and gender. Predisposition of Jews to specific forms of mental illness ; Trauma and trains: testing ground of masculinity ; Reading insanity: male homosexuality and the rhetoric of race -- Systemic diseases: cancer and anti-semitism. Whose cancer is it, anyway? Freud's male body as the locus of disease ; Circumcised body as the precipitating factor for a social disease: males and anti-semitism.
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