.-4/88~ROWPWRINNO011~1010- Friday, September 28, 1984 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Best wishes for a Happy, Healthy BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY HEALTHY NEW YEAR MERgirLL PHARMACY BLUESTEIN BROS. Freud's conflict with Jewish identity examined in new volume Special to The Jewish News The significance of The Jokes of Sigmund Freud: A Study in Humor and Jewish Identity is not the new insights into the lighter aspects of the unconscious, as the title may suggest. The author, a professor of Anthropology at California State University, Los Angeles, rather uses Freud's humor as the key to the under- standing of his struggle with his own unconscious relating to Jewish Identity. Because of the relevance of the topic to current Jewish life, it is pertinent to look and brings another person, unin- vited, announcing: "This is my son-in-law, and I promised him board for the first year." The author relates Freud's preoccupation with money to his real life situation when he bor- rowed money in advance of his pay. This was true of Breuer and Hammershlag, two of his Jewish benefactors. The author suggests that Freud was influenced by the Jewish heritage that considers charity a mitzvah, not a manifes- tation of generosity, and therefore Continued on next page WE WISH OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS A VERY HEALTHY, HAPPY PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR BLUE FLASH CHEMICAL CO. WISHING ALL OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS A YEAR OF HEALTH and HAPPINESS BERRY & SEYBURN Property Management 28th Floor, Fisher Bldg., Detroit, Mi. 48202 871-6700 WirRNEizitgl Dr. Milton Steinhardt at the background as well as the evidence. Though we cannot accept all the author's premises, we found the main thesis well presented, in- formative, and provocative. The volume is a model of brevity and clarity. The author classifies Freud's humor on the basis of the topic, not on psychoanalytic principles. 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