On Freud's Jewish BodyThrough a symptomatic reading of Freuds corpus, from his letters to Fliess through the case of Little Hans to Moses and Montheism, this book demonstrates how circumcisionthe fetishized signifier of Jewish difference and source of knowledge about Jewish identityis central to Freuds construction of psychoanalysis. Jay Geller depicts Freud as an ordinary Viennese Jew making extraordinary attempts to mitigate the trauma of everyday antisemitism. He