Freud's 'Lamarckism' and the politics of racial science

Journal of the History of Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 37-80

  Slavet, Eliza ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

August Weismann; Bolshevism; Ernest Jones; Evolution; Heredity; Jewish identity; Lamarckism; Moses and Monotheism; Nazis; Paul Kammerer; Psychoanalysis; Racial science; Sigmund Freud

Indexed keywords

AUSTRIA; EVOLUTION; GERMANY; HEREDITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; JEW; MEMORY; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; REVIEW;

AUSTRIA; EVOLUTION; FREUDIAN THEORY; GERMANY; HEREDITY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; JEWS; MEMORY;

EID: 41149114570     PISSN: 00225010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10739-007-9138-4     Document Type: Review

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