New Perspectives on Freud's Moses and Monotheism

Ruth Ginsburg, Ilana Pardes, Ruth Ginsburg, Ilana Pardes

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9783484651609
• eBook ISBN: 9783110948264
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Jewish History
• Index: History

"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.

Table of contents

• New Perspectives on Freud’s Moses and Monotheism, Introduction
• The Advance in Intellectuality: Freud's Construction of Judaism
• The Triumph of Pure Spirituality. Sigmund Freud’s Moses and Monotheism
• Sigmund Freud’s Last Testament
• The Puzzle of Freud’s Epistemology in Moses and Monotheism
• Whose Trauma Is It Anyway? Some Reflections on Freud’s Traumatic History
• The Double Death of Moses
• Mind the Gap: Some Midrashic Propositions for Moses and Monotheism
• Moses, Freud and Frida Kahlo
• Freud, Zipporah, and The Bridegroom of Blood: National Ambivalence in the Bible
• Freud, Moses and Modern Nationhood
• Psychoanalysis and the Music of Charisma in the Moseses of Freud and Schönberg
• A Special Case of German-Jewish Literature: Sigmund Freud’s Book on Moses
• Myth into Novel: The Late Freud on Early Religion
• The Return of Alchemical and Messianic Judaism: A Social Scientific De-Sublimation of Social Psychology in Freud and Durkheim
• Der Mann Freud: A Contemporary Perspective on His and Our Jewish and Psychoanalytic Identity
• Selected Bibliography
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Index