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No. 3 - The Religious Rise and Fall of the Zentralblatt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2022

Maya Balakirsky Katz
Affiliation:
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
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This chapter addresses the most common problems in historiographic approaches to religious content in Freud’s oeuvre through a close reading of Freud’s first foray into the ancient Mother cult that appeared in the Zentralblatt at the end of 1911. I explore how misleading assumptions about the untitled four-paragraph text known as “Great is Diana of the Ephesians” reflects broader issues in scholarship on religion in psychoanalysis. I demonstrate that these historiographical trends on religious content has effectively obscured Freud’s main point, which turns out to an editorial epistle announcing Freud’s editorial control of the Zentralblatt after Alfred Adler’s resignation hidden in the metaphoric chaff of religious hootenanny.

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Freud, Jung, and Jonah
Religion and the Birth of the Psychoanalytic Periodical
, pp. 98 - 134
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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