Gilad Sharvit is the Helen Diller Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies at UC Berkeley. Taking as its entry point Freud’s reorientation of anti-Semitism as aggressive action, Sharvit argues that Freud’s fear of the violent mob can be located in three interconnected dimensions of his work, all deeply informed by Hobbesian imagination. Sharvit claims that as an effect of suffering from anti-Semitism, Freud was not only quick to accept a Hobbesian perspective, but that he also reconstructed it to a degree that radically changed its meaning.