New perspectives on Freud's "Moses and monotheism" / edited by Ruth Ginsburg and Ilana Pardes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ginsburg, Ruth, 1934-

Pardes, Ilana.

Series:

Conditio Judaica, 0941-5866 ; 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monotheism--Congresses.

Monotheism.

Judaism--History--Congresses.

Judaism.

Psychology, Religious--Congresses.

Psychology, Religious.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion--Congresses.

Freud, Sigmund.

Moses (Biblical leader)--Congresses.

Moses.

Physical Description:

vi, 258 p. : ill., music.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tübingen : Max Niemeyer, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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.

New Perspectives on Freud's Moses and Monotheism stellt einige der wichtigsten aktuellen Untersuchungen zum Thema "Moses und Monotheismus" dar. Die Essays in diesem Band bieten neue Sichtweisen der Freudschen Auffassung des Judaismus, des kollektiven Traumas und der kollektiven Verdrängung, nationaler Gewalt, Geschlechterfragen, hermeneutischer Mysterien, religiöser Konstellationen, Fragen der Darstellung und Konstruktionen der Wahrheit, bei der Erforschung der Relevanz von "Moses und Monotheismus" für verschiedene Gebiete - von jüdischen Studien, Psychoanalyse, Geschichte und Ägyptologie bis hin zu Literatur, Musikwissenschaft und Kunst.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

New Perspectives on Freud's Moses and Monotheism. Introduction

The Advance in Intellectuality: Freud's Construction of Judaism / Assmann, Jan

The Triumph of Pure Spirituality. Sigmund Freud's Moses and Monotheism / Schäfer, Peter

Sigmund Freud's Last Testament / Wistrich, Robert S.

The Puzzle of Freud's Epistemology in Moses and Monotheism / Blass, Rachel Β.

Whose Trauma Is It Anyway? Some Reflections on Freud's Traumatic History / Ginsburg, Ruth

The Double Death of Moses / Rojtman, Betty

Mind the Gap: Some Midrashic Propositions for Moses and Monotheism / Barzilai, Shuli

Moses, Freud and Frida Kahlo / Ankori, Gannit

Freud, Zipporah, and The Bridegroom of Blood: National Ambivalence in the Bible / Pardes, Ilana

Freud, Moses and Modern Nationhood / Confino, Alon

Psychoanalysis and the Music of Charisma in the Moseses of Freud and Schönberg / HaCohen, Ruth

A Special Case of German-Jewish Literature: Sigmund Freud's Book on Moses / Hessing, Jakob

Myth into Novel: The Late Freud on Early Religion / Stroumsa, Guy G.

The Return of Alchemical and Messianic Judaism: A Social Scientific De-Sublimation of Social Psychology in Freud and Dürkheim / Wexler, Philip

Der Mann Freud: A Contemporary Perspective on His and Our Jewish and Psychoanalytic Identity / Erlich, Η. Shmuel

Selected Bibliography

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements / Ginsburg, Ruth / Pardes, Ilana

Index

Notes:

Contributions from a conference held June 2002 at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-247) and index.

ISBN:

9783110948264

3110948265

OCLC:

979607699