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Freud's Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable

Freud's Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable

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Series: Franz Rosenzweig Lecture

JudaismBible StudiesGeneral Psychology

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ISBN10: 0300057563
ISBN13: 9780300057560
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Jul 28 1993
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.09 Depth: 9.18
Language: English

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.

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