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Having a blog addressing antisemitism is important for raising awareness and combating prejudice. It serves as an educational platform, dispelling misconceptions and promoting understanding. Providing links to resources about antisemitism helps readers gain a comprehensive understanding of this issue and encourages them to take informed action against discrimination and hatred.

International Psychoanalytic Study Group on Antisemitism

Wednesday, September 03 2025

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on “Old” and “New” Antisemitism

By Shmuel Erlich

Undertaking the deconstruction of a phenomenon as vast and age-old as antisemitism in the short time span of a panel may properly count as a sequel to the “Mission Impossible” series. But the significance and value of discussing this topic at this time and in this psychoanalytic forum is incalculable.

The Uncanny in the Normalization of Antisemitism

By Rosine Jozef Perelberg

This paper aims to explore whether psychoanalysis has a contribution to offer to an understanding of the current explosion of antisemitism, which has an extremely long history and is still at play in the present. Throughout the ages, historians and specialists on antisemitism have been puzzled by the latter’s persistence. How possible is it to be reflective if we are still in the moment of the trauma with an increase of antisemitism across the world, with no possibility of a passage of time that would enable an après-coup to take place? Traumatised societies regress and employ splitting and projection: all nuance is lost. Issues and people become reduced to good or bad, friend or foe.

Rosine Jozef Perelberg: The Banalization of Antisemitism

As part of the series in summer semester 2024 “das ganze Grauen – Psychoanalytische Aufklärung nach dem 7. Oktober” of the student initiative krIPU at the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin, Rosine Jozef Perelberg gave a lecture on “The Banalization of Antisemitism”.

PCCA Conference Series OTHERING and Hatred of DIVERSITY

Antisemitism is one of the oldest and most persistent forms of collective hatred. It mutates across time and place, taking on new language and symbols — yet remaining rooted in enduring projections of fear, envy, and blame.

Panel on antisemitism at the 54th IPA Congress in Lisbon

Centro Cultural de Belem

Deconstructing Antisemitism:
Some Theoretical Anchors in Chaotic Times

Speakers: Mariano Horenstein, Rosine Perelberg and Shmuel Erlich. Chair: Harvey Schwartz
Thursday 31/7  14.20 to 15.50
Room Fernando Pessoa

Fathom Long Read | Political Antisemitism Explained

Bernard Harrison’s book Blaming the Jews: Politics and Delusion (Indiana University Press, 2020) is, we believe, a vital text. Questioning the assumption that antisemitism affects or targets only Jews, it demonstrates that when allowed to go unchecked, antisemitism is potentially damaging to us all.

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No More One or the Other

Yes, Ernst Jandl: Humanityyyyyy, we certainly could use a little bit of it. Since the attack of Hamas, I no longer know what this is supposed to be. It becomes a piece of paper on which many beautiful things have been written and then set on fire. And then the ashes, as perhaps in the case of Arthur Schnitzler’s divorce from his wife Olga before a Munich Rabbinic Court, the ashes were ground above the heads of the participants.

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Georges Bensoussan: “Let’s stop seeing the Arab-Israeli conflict through the Western prism of victimhood

(…) To everyone’s misfortune, this conflict is mired in what Wilhelm Reich called the “emotional plague”, the reign of labile emotion which, with no regard for truth, opens the way to passion, entirely devoted to the affirmation of convictions where Nietzsche saw the opposite of truth. When, in our ‘society of the spectacle’, emotion becomes spectacle, tears blur the issues and make the origins of chaos disappear.

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Musk and the marches

As if the world’s Jews don’t have enough problems right now. Still dealing with the aftershock of the worst slaughter of Jews in a single day since the Holocaust, over 200 of us still held hostage by the same murderous fanatics who carried out that pogrom, and with a worldwide wave of anti-Jewish hatred sweeping through our communities, the world’s richest man, Elon
Musk, decided to remind everyone that eliminationist anti-Zionism is not the only game in town when it comes to antisemitism.

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