In his original study, On Freud’s Jewish Body: Mitigating Circumcisions (Fordham University Press, 2007) Jay Geller '75, an associate professor of modern Jewish culture at Vanderbilt Divinity School, depicts psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud as an ordinary Viennese Jewish man who made exceptional efforts to alleviate the trauma of everyday antisemitism. He positions Freud at the center of antisemitic, misogynistic, colonialist, and homophobic discourses, both scientific and popular. These views held in place the double bind of post-Emancipation and pre-Shoah Viennese Jewish life: the demand for complete assimilation into the dominant culture, accompanied by the assumption that Jews were constitutionally incapable of eliminating their difference. Geller offers a close reading of Freud’s works, from his letters to his confidante Wilhelm Fliess through the case of Little Hans to Moses and Montheism, and considers how “circumcision”—the fetishized signifier of Jewish difference and source of knowledge about Jewish identity—is central to Freud’s construction of psychoanalysis. As he examines overlapping layers of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and race in identity construction, theories of trauma, fetishism, and writing, the author focuses on Freud’s representations of the Jewish body and reveals how Freud reinscribed the virile masculine norm, and the hypervirile and effeminate Jewish other, into the discourse of psychoanalysis.