不良研究所

The Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas welcomes Dr. Eliza Slavet, who will speak on her new book, Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question (Fordham Univ. Press, 2009).

What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel they have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about race without reducing it to racism or to physical differences? 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. Slavet is Lecturer in English Literature and Religious Studies at University of California at San Diego