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The castration complex is the deepest unconscious root of anti-semitism; for even in the nursery little boys hear that a Jew has something cut off his penis - a piece of his penis, they think - and this gives them a right to despise Jews.

The castration complex is the deepest unconscious root of anti-semitism; for even in the nursery little boys hear that a Jew has something cut off his penis - a piece of his penis, they think - and this gives them a right to despise Jews.

Sigmund Freud (Jewish psychologist) “Analysis Of A Phobia In A Five-Year-Old Boy”, 1909 (According to Freud, a “castration complex” is an unconscious anxiety represented in males as a fear that the penis will be removed by the father in response to sexual interest in the mother)