Lecture by Naomi Seidman: Psychoanalysis for Diabetics: Freud in the Yiddish Press, followed by KlezmerBeisl

Lecture by Naomi Seidman: Psychoanalysis for Diabetics: Freud in the Yiddish Press, followed by KlezmerBeisl with the Hawaras

The Viennese journalist Karl Kraus once quipped that "psychoanalysis was the disease of assimilated Jews; Eastern European Jews made do with diabetes." This talk will explore what Freud meant for those Yiddish-speaking "diabetics" who nevertheless were fascinated by "the famous Jewish Professor from Vienna," as this relationship was reflected in the popular Jewish press.

Professor Seidman is the Jackman Humanities Professor at the University of Toronto, in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. We welcome her back to YUNG YiDiSH WIEN to give a lecture about her freshly-published book, The Navel of the Dream: Freud’s Jewish Languages, a study of the Hebrew and Yiddish translations of Freud's writings during his lifetime. Her previous book, Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution…