Difference and Pathology
Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race, and Madness

Sander L. Gilman (Author)

9780801493324

Paperback / softback, published 7 October 1985

304 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.454 kg

In ten chapters filled with literary examples and historical evidence of astonishing diversity, a major historian of psychoanalysis develops enough theses for several books. Acknowledging stereotypes as necessary and ubiquitous, Gilman traces some important destructive ones from Aristotle to the present: women, Jews, and blacks seen as repositories of sex, disease, and madness. Embracing history, philosophy, psychology, public health, and the arts, this landmark work clears a path through terrain strewn with false historical pointers, and puts Freud's influence in a welcome new light.