Description
Book SynopsisOver the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in psychoanalysis''s relation to society has emerged, allowing Freud's account of the interdependence of religion, ethics, and violence 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 critically examines a range of discourses surrounding Freud and Moses, taking as its entry point Freud's relations to Judaism, his conception of tradition and history, his theory of the mind, and his model of transgenerational inheritance. Highlighting the broad impact of Moses and Monotheism across the humanities, contributors from philosophy, comparative literature, cultural studies, Jewish studies, psychoanalysis, and Egyptology come together to illuminate Freud's book and the modern world with which
Table of Contents
Introduction
Karen Feldman and Gilad Sharvit
“Why [the Jews] have Attracted this Undying Hatred”
Richard Bernstein
“Geistigkeit”: A Problematic Concept
Joel Whitebook
Heine and Freud: Deferred Action and the Concept of History
Willi Goetschel
Freud’s Moses: Murder, Exile, and the Question of Belonging
Gabriele Schwab
A Leap of Faith into Moses: Freud’s Invitation to Evenly Suspended Attention
Yael Segalovitz
Freud, Sellin, and the Murder of Moses
Jan Assmann
Creating the Jews: Mosaic Discourse in Freud and Hosea
Ronald Hendel
Is Psychic Phylogenesis only a Phantasy? New Biological Developments in Trauma Inheritance
Catherine Malabou
Moses and the Burning Bush: Leadership and Potentiality in the Bible
Gilad Sharvit
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
