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Anti-Semitism at the Limit: Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis

Author(s) : Benjamin B. Strosberg

Reviews and Endorsements

Much easier to trigger than explain, anti-Semitism is showing itself even harder to eradicate in our troubled world. Nimbly combining insights from Zygmunt Bauman's theory of proteophobia and Theodor W. Adorno's negative psychology, Benjamin Strosberg has written a nuanced, theoretically astute, deeply felt study of its over-determined causes. Anti-Semitism at the Limit offers a master class in the application of psychoanalysis to pressing cultural and social problems.
Martin Jay, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Berkeley, USA

A compelling, insightful and timely engagement with the age-old historical dilemma of anti-Semitism. Strosberg's analysis is multi-dimensional in scope, original, ambitious, and genuinely pathbreaking in how he guides us from an applied discussion of 'proteophobia' as one underlying basis of anti-Semitism, to a consideration of Adorno's 'negative psychology' as a crucial resource for both Psychosocial Studies and the fight against bigotry and racism.
Derek Hook, Professor of Psychology, Duquesne University, USA, author of Six Moments in Lacan