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Freud and the Jewish Question

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

With Professor Eliza Slavet

What makes a person Jewish? In this presentation, based on her book Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question, Eliza Slavet moves beyond debates about how Freud felt about Judaism and instead explores what he wrote about Jewishness: what it is, how it is transmitted, and how it has survived.

Slavet maintains that Freud’s theory of Jewishness emerges as the culmination of his work on transference, telepathy and inter-generational transmission. Writing on the eve of the Holocaust, Freud proposed that Jewishness is constituted by the inheritance of ancestral memories; thus, regardless of any attempts to repress, suppress or repudiate Jewishness, Jews will remain Jewish, and Judaism will survive.

Eliza Slavet is a scholar of religion, with interests in psychoanalysis, Jewish studies, and Moses narratives. She received a Ph.D. in Literature from UCSD and has held teaching positions in literature, interdisciplinary study, religion and history at several schools and universities.

Eliza Slavet is a scholar of religion, with interests in psychoanalysis, Jewish studies, and Moses narratives. She received a Ph.D. in Literature from UCSD and has held teaching positions in literature, interdisciplinary study, religion and history at several schools and universities. Currently, she is Founder/Executive Director of GRAPEJUICE: Your home for the holidays, Shabbat and beyond.

Fee: $5. Register online below. For more information, contact Program Director Bonnie Graff at bgraff@cbisd.org or call (858) 535-1111 ext. 2519.

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Date:
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Adult Education

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Beth Israel
9001 Towne Centre Drive
San Diego, CA 92122 United States
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Phone:
858 535-1111
Website:
www.cbisd.org