Freud S Moses

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Leonardo Paolo Lovari
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9788898301799

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Moses and Monotheism by Sigmund Freud Pdf

The book consists of three essays and is an extension of Freud’s work on psychoanalytic theory as a means of generating hypotheses about historical events. Freud hypothesizes that Moses was not Hebrew, but actually born into Ancient Egyptian nobility and was probably a follower of Akhenaten, an ancient Egyptian monotheist. Freud contradicts the biblical story of Moses with his own retelling of events, claiming that Moses only led his close followers into freedom during an unstable period in Egyptian history after Akhenaten (ca. 1350 BCE) and that they subsequently killed Moses in rebellion and later combined with another monotheistic tribe in Midian based on a volcanic God, Jahweh. Freud explains that years after the murder of Moses, the rebels regretted their action, thus forming the concept of the Messiah as a hope for the return of Moses as the Saviour of the Israelites. Freud said that the guilt from the murder of Moses is inherited through the generations; this guilt then drives the Jews to religion to make them feel better.

Author : Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300057563

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Freud's Moses by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi Pdf

Moses and Monotheism, Freud's last major book and the only one specifically devoted to a Jewish theme, has proved to be one of the most controversial and enigmatic works in the Freudian canon. Among other things, Freud claims in the book that Moses was an Egyptian, that he derived the notion of monotheism from Egyptian concepts, and that after he introduced monotheism to the Jews he was killed by them. Since these historical and ethnographic assumptions have been generally rejected by biblical scholars, anthropologists, and historians of religion, the book has increasingly been approached psychoanalytically, as a psychological document of Freud's inner life--of his allegedly unresolved Oedipal complex and ambivalence over his Jewish identity. In Freud's Moses a distinguished historian of the Jews brings a new perspective to this puzzling work. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi argues that while attempts to psychoanalyze Freud's text may be potentially fruitful, they must be preceded by a genuine effort to understand what Freud consciously wanted to convey to his readers. Using both historical and philological analysis, Yerushalmi offers new insights into Freud's intentions in writing Moses and Monotheism. He presents the work as Freud's psychoanalytic history of the Jews, Judaism, and the Jewish psyche--his attempt, under the shadow of Nazism, to discover what has made the Jews what they are. In the process Yerushalmi's eloquent and sensitive exploration of Freud's last work provides a reappraisal of Freud's feelings toward anti-Semitism and the gentile world, his ambivalence about psychoanalysis as a "Jewish" science, his relationship to his father, and above all a new appreciation of the depth and intensity of Freud's identity as a "godless Jew."

Author : Gilad Sharvit,Karen S. Feldman
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780823280049

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Freud and Monotheism by Gilad Sharvit,Karen S. Feldman Pdf

Over the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in the interconnection of psychoanalysis, religion and political theory has emerged, allowing Freud’s illuminating examination of the religious and mystical practices in “Obsessive Neurosis and Religious Practices,” and the exegesis of the origins of ethics in religion in Totem and Taboo, to gain currency in recent debates on modernity. In that context, the pivotal role of Freud’s masterpiece, Moses and Monotheism, is widely recognized. Freud and Monotheism brings together fundamental new contributions to discourses on Freud and Moses, as well as new research at the intersections of theology, political theory, and history in Freud’s psychoanalytic work. Highlighting the broad impact of Moses and Monotheism across the humanities, the contributors hail from such diverse disciplines as philosophy, comparative literature, cultural studies, German studies, Jewish studies and psychoanalysis. Jan Assmann and Richard Bernstein, whose books pioneered the earlier debate that initiated the Freud and Moses discourse, seize the opportunity to revisit and revise their groundbreaking work. Gabriele Schwab, Gilad Sharvit, Karen Feldman, and Yael Segalovitz engage with the idiosyncratic, eccentric and fertile nature of the book as a Spӓtstil, and explore radical interpretations of Freud’s literary practice, theory of religion and therapeutic practice. Ronald Hendel offers an alternative history for the Mosaic discourse within the biblical text, Catherine Malabou reconnects Freud’s theory of psychic phylogenesis in Moses and Monotheism to new findings in modern biology and Willi Goetschel relocates Freud in the tradition of works on history that begins with Heine, while Joel Whitebook offers important criticisms of Freud’s main argument about the advance in intellectuality that Freud attributes to Judaism.

Author : Robert A. Paul
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0300064284

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Moses and Civilization by Robert A. Paul Pdf

And he details the way Freud's myth corresponds to the unconscious fantasy structure of the obsessional personality - a style of personality dynamics Paul sees as essential to maintaining the bureaucratic institutions that comprise Western civilization's most distinctive features.

Author : Richard J. Bernstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998-10-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521638771

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Freud and the Legacy of Moses by Richard J. Bernstein Pdf

Freud's last book, Moses and Monotheism, was published in 1939 during one of the darkest periods in Jewish history. This difficult book has frequently been vilified and dismissed because Freud claims that Moses was not a Hebrew but an Egyptian, and that the Jews murdered Moses in the wilderness. Richard Bernstein argues that a close reading of Moses and Monotheism reveals an underlying powerful coherence in which Freud seeks to specify the distinctive character and contribution of the Jewish people. It is this character that has enabled the Jewish people to survive despite persecution and virulent anti-Semitism, and Freud proudly identifies himself with it. In his analysis of Freud's often misunderstood last work, Bernstein goes on to shows how Freud expands and deepens our understanding of a religious tradition by revealing its unconscious dynamics.

Author : Ruth Ginsburg,Ilana Pardes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110948264

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New Perspectives on Freud's Moses and Monotheism by Ruth Ginsburg,Ilana Pardes Pdf

"New Perspectives on Freud's Moses and Monotheism" presents some of the most important current scholarship on 'Moses and Monotheism'. The essays in this volume offer new perspectives on Freud's perception of Judaism, of collective trauma and collective repression, national violence, gender issues, hermeneutic enigmas, religious configurations, questions of representation, and constructions of truth, while exploring the relevance of 'Moses and Monotheism' in diverse fields - from Jewish Studies, Psychoanalysis, History, and Egyptology to Literature, Musicology, and Art.

Author : Edward W. Said,Jacqueline Rose
Publisher : Verso
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1859845002

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Freud and the Non-European by Edward W. Said,Jacqueline Rose Pdf

Reveals Saidâe(tm)s abiding interest in Freudâe(tm)s work and its important influence on his own.

Author : Emanuel Rice,Emanuel Rice M D
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0791404536

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Freud and Moses by Emanuel Rice,Emanuel Rice M D Pdf

Rice tells of the geographic, intellectual, and religious journey that the Freud family, like thousands of other Jews, made out of the ghettos of Eastern Europe, and how the vicissitudes of this odyssey affected Sigmund Freud, his character, genius, and creativity. Annotation copyright Book News, In

Author : Mark Edmundson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781582345376

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The Death of Sigmund Freud by Mark Edmundson Pdf

An account of the final two years in the life of Sigmund Freud and their legacy describes how, in 1938, the elderly, ailing, Jewish Freud was rescued from Nazi-occupied Vienna and brought to London, where he finally found acclaim for his achievements, battled terminal cancer, and wrote his most provocative book, Moses and Monotheism.

Author : Miriam Leonard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226472478

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Socrates and the Jews by Miriam Leonard Pdf

Taking on the question of how the glories of the classical world could be reconciled with the Bible, this book explains how Judaism played a vital role in defining modern philhellenism.

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Belief and doubt
ISBN : 014013803X

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The Origins of Religion by Sigmund Freud Pdf

Author : Philip Rieff
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0813927064

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The Jew of Culture by Philip Rieff Pdf

"The purpose of this collection of Rieff's writings ... is to trace the evolution of the 'Jews of culture' over the course of his work." --introd.

Author : Jan Assmann
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674020306

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Moses the Egyptian by Jan Assmann Pdf

Moses is at the foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture. Here the factual and fictional events and characters in religious beliefs are studied. It traces monotheism back to the Egyptian king Akhenaten and shows how Moses's followers established truth by denouncing all others as false.

Author : Armand Nicholi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 074324785X

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The Question of God by Armand Nicholi Pdf

Compares and contrasts the beliefs of two famous thinkers, Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis, on topics ranging from the existence of God and morality to pain and suffering.

Author : Susan A. Handelman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438405643

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The Slayers of Moses by Susan A. Handelman Pdf

In this groundbreaking study, Susan Handelman examines the theological roots of the modern science of interpretation. She defines current structures of thought and patterns of organizing reality, clearly distinguishes them from previously reigning Hellenic modes of abstract thought, and connects them with important elements of the Rabbinic interpretive tradition. Hers is the first comprehensive treatment of the undeniable, and undeniably significant, influence of Jewish religious thought on contemporary literary criticism. Dr. Handelman shows how they provide a crucial link among several of the most influential modern theories of textual interpretation, from Freud to the Deconstructionist School of Lacan and Derrida, as well as current literary theorists who revive Rabbinic hermeneutics, such as Harold Bloom and Geoffrey Hartman.