On Freud's Jewish Body: Mitigating CircumcisionsThrough a symptomatic reading of Freud's corpus, from his letters to Fliess through the case of Little Hans to Moses and Montheism, this book demonstrates how "circumcision" the fetishized signifier of Jewish difference and source of knowledge about Jewish identity is central to Freud's construction of psychoanalysis. Jay Geller depicts Freud as an ordinary Viennese Jew making extraordinary attempts to mitigate the trauma of everyday antisemitism. He