Jewishness could better be used as evidence that he did not seehimself as a convinced member of that religion.
Still, it would not be fair to Freud to argue that he was entirely ready to reject his Jewishness, for that was not the case.
The reality of his attitude toward Jewishness was ambiguous and contradictory. With respect to the impact of Jewishness on the acceptance and success of psychoanalysis, Freud seems to have been consistently willing to downplay the role of Jewishness in order to encourage European and American acceptance of the new science. On the ot
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