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Friday, April 4, 1947

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Thirty-Six

Orthodox Rabbis Set

'The Mind and Death of a Genius'

Psychiatrist Analyses Hates
Of Anti-Semite Weininger

Otto Weininger drew interna- was published by Columbia Uni-
tional attention with his book versity Press, 2960 Broadway,
"Sex and Character" ("Geschlecht New York 27, points out that
Weininger's "hatred of Judaism
and Character") which appeared and Jews was connected with
in 1903. Shortly thereafter—Oct. feelings of guilt at his conversion
4. 1903—he committed suicide at to Christianity." Appendices to
the age of 24 in a room in the "The Mind i.nd Death of a Gen-
ius" show that Weininger's Jew-
house in which Beethoven died, ish name was Sholom and that
in Vienna.
he left the Jewish fold May 28,
Now, 44 years later, the hates 1902-16 months before his sui-
and prejudices of this young Jew cide.
who was more anti-Semitic than
Prof. Sigmund Freud, who was
even the most rabid Nazis are acquainted with Weininger and
exposed in a psychological study, his works, is quoted as saying
"The Mind and Death of a Gen- that Weininger was completely
ius." by Dr. David Abrahamsen, swayed by "his infantile com-
Norwegian - Jewish psychiatrist plexes; and from that standpoint
and physician.
what is common to Jews and wo-
Dr. Abrahamsen, who escaped men is their relation to the cas-
from Norway after the country's tration complex;" that "Weining-
occupation by the Germans, now er . . . treated Jews and women
is on the staff of the psychiatry with equal hostility and over-
department of Columbia Uni- whelmed them with the same in-
versity. In his striking book on sults."
Weininger he shows how the
Dr. Abrahamsen quotes, in the
young genius hated the Jews and appendix, a letter he received
how be became perverted in his from Weininger's sister, Rosa,
dislike of feminism.
who stated, in 1938: "We are not
Pointing out that Weininger descendants of Cellini. My father
attributed feminine traits to the was Jewish, as was my mother.
Jewish people, Dr. Abrahamsen My father was highly anti-Sem-
states: "Would it be far-fetched itic, but he thought as a Jew and
to see a possible symbolic con- was angry when Otto wrote
nection between his anti-femin- against Judaism."
ism and his anti-Semitism? Be-
Thus, we have an inherited
ing of Jewish blood, he was loud feeling of self-hatred on the part
in his hatred of the Jews in of a young Jewish genius whose
order to show that he was not life story and perverted mind
really different from other men. are brilliantly described by an
Being homosexual, he was loud eminent psychiatrist.
in his denunciation of women in
order to show that he was not
At the recent 25th anniversary
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The hatred of his mother re- celebration of Ain Charod, large
ligion. Judaism, should also collective settlement in i the Pales-
probably be regarced as a sym- tine Valley of Jesreel, the found-
bolof his hatred for his own ation stone for a hotel to accom-
mother." modate tourists visiting the dis-

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