Description
Book SynopsisMoses and Monotheism brings together fundamental new contributions to discourses on Freud and Moses, as well as new research on the intersections of theology, political theory, and history in Freud’s psychoanalytic work.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
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
