French Identity Issues

When I was an adolescent in Buenos Aires, we Jewish boys all battled unsolvable identity issues. Being a Jew was a most problematic identity, no one knew how to deal with it. Now I see that the French had caught the Galuth neurosis: this book tells the story of a French girl with some nebulous Algerian ancestry, who "returns" to Algeria to fill in the silences of her parents. Not long ago, the French had a solid idea of themselves and what they were, but now everything is mixed up and no one knows who he/she is. They are suffering and unhappy, and trying to work out their identities by writing books. As for me, Zionism dissolved any complex I may have had, and my children are free of this mental disease.