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The experiences of three Ashkenazi Jewish women are engaged to explore the imperative of women’s bodily disavowal within white supremacy from a psychoanalytic perspective. Their stories demonstrate the way in which bodies are altered, disowned, and made abject as a retreat from Jewish ethnicity and racialization, leading to psychological distress, which is then understood as apolitical, intrapsychic, and generic, rather than as a response to physical and psychological trauma in a specific historical, cultural context. Constrained possibilities of embodiment, empowerment, autonomy, and pleasure—including sexuality and relationship to food—are highlighted and explored in relation to questions of agency and liberation.