<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->p. 148-149, "It does not seem far-fetched to suggest,' [Stanley Rothman and Phillip Isenberg] write, 'that with the publication of The Interpretation of Dreams Freud felt that he had weakened if not fully conquered the Catholic Church and had thus succeeded in doing what his father had feared to do.' Rothman and Isenberg adduce much additional evidence to support their thesis concerning Freud's 'Jewish marginality' as the reason for his disaffection with the he Christian world in which he lived. 'Is it possible, then,' they ask, 'that some of the motives associated with Freud's discovery of psychoanalysis had their sources in the same drives which led other Jews to Marxism, i.e., <b>the desire to end marginality by undermining the basis of the dominant culture?' </b>They answer this somewhat rhetorical question affirmatively, though cautiously: 'There is at least some evidence that it is and that Freud was at least partially motivated by an animus towards the Catholic Church which informed and profoundly influenced his initial discoveries.' I differ from this view only by holding that Freud was more than partially influenced by such an animus and that it influenced not only his earlier writings but all of his work.' Rothman and Isenberg note that 'Freud's successful (if symbolic) conquest of Rome' -- in The Interpretation of Dreams -- did not 'lessen his dislike for the Catholic Church ... It was in Rome, too, that Freud, some years later, put the finishing touches on Totem and Taboo, which he always regarded as one of his most important and satisfying things he had written. The volume ostensibly deals with the origins of religion. Yet it is Christian practice and ritual that are examined in terms of primitive drive and defense mechanisms."
The Myth of Psychotherapy.
Mental Healing as Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression.
by Thomas Szasz; Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1978
FROM A CHAPTER ENTITLED:
SIGMUND FREUD: THE JEWISH AVENGER
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The Myth of Psychotherapy.
Mental Healing as Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression.
by Thomas Szasz; Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1978
FROM A CHAPTER ENTITLED:
SIGMUND FREUD: THE JEWISH AVENGER
http://www.jewishtribalreview.org/szasz.htm<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->