Unfathomable Craziness
Adam Phillips: When a body meets a body, 18 May 2000
Svengali’s Web: The Alien Enchanter in Modern Culture
by Daniel Pick.
Yale, 284 pp., £19.95, May 2000,0 300 08204 5 Show More
by Daniel Pick.
Yale, 284 pp., £19.95, May 2000,
“... the judgment, and the endurance of the Jews that has made them fascinating and suspect. Using Slavoj Zizek’s work to ground his own conclusions, Pick suggests, along psychoanalytic lines, that ‘Jews serve as a kind of “lightning conductor” for unwanted parts of the self and for uncontainable social forces. But they also present a category problem ... ”