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Freud and monotheism : Moses and the violent origins of religion / Gilad Sharvit, Karen S. Feldman.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Berkeley forum in the humanities.
- Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion.
- Violence--Psychological aspects.
- Violence.
- Violence--Religious aspects.
- Anti-Semitism.
- Cultural Memory.
- Egypt.
- Freud.
- Historiography.
- Holocaust.
- Monotheism.
- Moses.
- Myth.
- Religion.
- Trauma.
- Local Subjects:
- Anti-Semitism.
- Cultural Memory.
- Egypt.
- Freud.
- Historiography.
- Holocaust.
- Monotheism.
- Moses.
- Myth.
- Religion.
- Trauma.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. “Why [the Jews] Have Attracted This Undying Hatred”
- 2. Geistigkeit: A Problematic Concept
- 3. Heine and Freud: Deferred Action and the Concept of History
- 4. Freud’s Moses: Murder, Exile, and the Question of Belonging
- 5. A Leap of Faith into Moses: Freud’s Invitation to Evenly Suspended Attention
- 6. Freud, Sellin, and the Murder of Moses
- 7. Creating the Jews: Mosaic Discourse in Freud and Hosea
- 8. Is Psychic Phylogenesis Only a Phantasy? New Biological Developments in Trauma Inheritance
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-8162-0
- 0-8232-8005-5
- OCLC:
- 1017001321
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