Moses and Monotheism

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Publisher : Leonardo Paolo Lovari
ISBN 13 : 8898301790
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (983 download)

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Book Synopsis Moses and Monotheism by : Sigmund Freud

Download or read book Moses and Monotheism written by Sigmund Freud and published by Leonardo Paolo Lovari. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book consists of three essays and is an extension of Freud’s work on psychoanalytic theory as a means of generating hypotheses about historical events. Freud hypothesizes that Moses was not Hebrew, but actually born into Ancient Egyptian nobility and was probably a follower of Akhenaten, an ancient Egyptian monotheist. Freud contradicts the biblical story of Moses with his own retelling of events, claiming that Moses only led his close followers into freedom during an unstable period in Egyptian history after Akhenaten (ca. 1350 BCE) and that they subsequently killed Moses in rebellion and later combined with another monotheistic tribe in Midian based on a volcanic God, Jahweh. Freud explains that years after the murder of Moses, the rebels regretted their action, thus forming the concept of the Messiah as a hope for the return of Moses as the Saviour of the Israelites. Freud said that the guilt from the murder of Moses is inherited through the generations; this guilt then drives the Jews to religion to make them feel better.

Freud's Moses

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300057560
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (575 download)

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Book Synopsis Freud's Moses by : Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

Download or read book Freud's Moses written by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moses and Monotheism, Freud's last major book and the only one specifically devoted to a Jewish theme, has proved to be one of the most controversial and enigmatic works in the Freudian canon. Among other things, Freud claims in the book that Moses was an Egyptian, that he derived the notion of monotheism from Egyptian concepts, and that after he introduced monotheism to the Jews he was killed by them. Since these historical and ethnographic assumptions have been generally rejected by biblical scholars, anthropologists, and historians of religion, the book has increasingly been approached psychoanalytically, as a psychological document of Freud's inner life--of his allegedly unresolved Oedipal complex and ambivalence over his Jewish identity. In Freud's Moses a distinguished historian of the Jews brings a new perspective to this puzzling work. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi argues that while attempts to psychoanalyze Freud's text may be potentially fruitful, they must be preceded by a genuine effort to understand what Freud consciously wanted to convey to his readers. Using both historical and philological analysis, Yerushalmi offers new insights into Freud's intentions in writing Moses and Monotheism. He presents the work as Freud's psychoanalytic history of the Jews, Judaism, and the Jewish psyche--his attempt, under the shadow of Nazism, to discover what has made the Jews what they are. In the process Yerushalmi's eloquent and sensitive exploration of Freud's last work provides a reappraisal of Freud's feelings toward anti-Semitism and the gentile world, his ambivalence about psychoanalysis as a "Jewish" science, his relationship to his father, and above all a new appreciation of the depth and intensity of Freud's identity as a "godless Jew."

The Origins of Religion

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ISBN 13 : 9780140138030
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Religion written by Sigmund Freud and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Moses the Egyptian

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674020308
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Moses the Egyptian by : Jan Assmann

Download or read book Moses the Egyptian written by Jan Assmann and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moses is at the foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture. Here the factual and fictional events and characters in religious beliefs are studied. It traces monotheism back to the Egyptian king Akhenaten and shows how Moses's followers established truth by denouncing all others as false.

Freud and Monotheism

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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823280047
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Book Synopsis Freud and Monotheism by : Gilad Sharvit

Download or read book Freud and Monotheism written by Gilad Sharvit and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Freud and the Non-European

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Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859845004
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)

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Book Synopsis Freud and the Non-European by : Edward W. Said

Download or read book Freud and the Non-European written by Edward W. Said and published by Verso. This book was released on 2003 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals Saidâe(tm)s abiding interest in Freudâe(tm)s work and its important influence on his own.

Freud and the Legacy of Moses

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521638777
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (387 download)

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Book Synopsis Freud and the Legacy of Moses by : Richard J. Bernstein

Download or read book Freud and the Legacy of Moses written by Richard J. Bernstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-08 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freud's last book, Moses and Monotheism, was published in 1939 during one of the darkest periods in Jewish history. This difficult book has frequently been vilified and dismissed because Freud claims that Moses was not a Hebrew but an Egyptian, and that the Jews murdered Moses in the wilderness. Richard Bernstein argues that a close reading of Moses and Monotheism reveals an underlying powerful coherence in which Freud seeks to specify the distinctive character and contribution of the Jewish people. It is this character that has enabled the Jewish people to survive despite persecution and virulent anti-Semitism, and Freud proudly identifies himself with it. In his analysis of Freud's often misunderstood last work, Bernstein goes on to shows how Freud expands and deepens our understanding of a religious tradition by revealing its unconscious dynamics.

Early Freud and Late Freud

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134752601
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Book Synopsis Early Freud and Late Freud by : Ilse Grubrich-Simitis

Download or read book Early Freud and Late Freud written by Ilse Grubrich-Simitis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ilse Grubrich-Simitis, well-known as a Freud scholar and editor of Freud's works, has long advocated a return to his original texts in order to comprehend fully the power and innovative force of his theories. In Early Freud and Late Freud she examines the earliest psychoanalytic book, Studies on Hysteria, which Freud wrote together with Breuer, and Moses and Monotheism, Freud's last book. The essay on Studies on Hysteria reveals to the reader why that book is indeed the 'primal book' of psychoanalysis. Not only does it offer a moving and dramatic account of the birth of the psychoanalytic method, but by introducing the key concept of trauma it establishes a foundation on which much of modern psychoanalysis has been built. Freud was to return to his original theory of trauma in his last book, Moses and Monotheism, where he developed it further in the light of his intervening researches. On the basis of her study of the Moses manuscripts and by applying the psychoanalytic method, Ilse Grubrich-Simitis shows how contemporary traumatic events in Nazi Germany may have influenced this return to the beginning and the intensification of Freud's self-analysis. This in turn was to lead to new insights into archaic forms of defence, pointing the way forward for modern psychoanalysis. Elegantly constructed and persuasively argued, Early Freud and Late Freud re-establishes the importance of two major Freudian texts, offering a new understanding of their significance.

Moses and Civilization

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300064285
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (642 download)

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Book Synopsis Moses and Civilization by : Robert A. Paul

Download or read book Moses and Civilization written by Robert A. Paul and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And he details the way Freud's myth corresponds to the unconscious fantasy structure of the obsessional personality - a style of personality dynamics Paul sees as essential to maintaining the bureaucratic institutions that comprise Western civilization's most distinctive features.

Monotheism and Tolerance

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253221560
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Book Synopsis Monotheism and Tolerance by : Robert Erlewine

Download or read book Monotheism and Tolerance written by Robert Erlewine and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monotheism and Tolerance suggests a way to deal with the intractable problem of religiously motivated and justified violence.

Derrida, Africa, and the Middle East

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Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
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Book Synopsis Derrida, Africa, and the Middle East by : Christopher Wise

Download or read book Derrida, Africa, and the Middle East written by Christopher Wise and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study argues that deconstruction may be more closely akin to ancient Egypto-African ways of thinking about language and offers a new framework for considering Derrida.

Akhenaten and the Origins of Monotheism

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199792143
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Book Synopsis Akhenaten and the Origins of Monotheism by : James K. Hoffmeier

Download or read book Akhenaten and the Origins of Monotheism written by James K. Hoffmeier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pharaoh Akhenaten, who reigned for seventeen years in the fourteenth century B.C.E, is one of the most intriguing rulers of ancient Egypt. His odd appearance and his preoccupation with worshiping the sun disc Aten have stimulated academic discussion and controversy for more than a century. Despite the numerous books and articles about this enigmatic figure, many questions about Akhenaten and the Atenism religion remain unanswered. In Akhenaten and the Origins of Monotheism, James K. Hoffmeier argues that Akhenaten was not, as is often said, a radical advocating a new religion, but rather a primitivist: that is, one who reaches back to a golden age and emulates it. Akhenaten's inspiration was the Old Kingdom (2650-2400 B.C.E.), when the sun-god Re/Atum ruled as the unrivaled head of the Egyptian pantheon. Hoffmeier finds that Akhenaten was a genuine convert to the worship of Aten, the sole creator God, based on the Pharoah's own testimony of a theophany, a divine encounter that launched his monotheistic religious odyssey. The book also explores the Atenist religion's possible relationship to Israel's religion, offering a close comparison of the hymn to the Aten to Psalm 104, which has been identified by scholars as influenced by the Egyptian hymn. Through a careful reading of key texts, artworks, and archaeological studies, Hoffmeier provides compelling new insights into a religion that predated Moses and Hebrew monotheism, the impact of Atenism on Egyptian religion and politics, and the aftermath of Akhenaten's reign.

The Price of Monotheism

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 080477286X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis The Price of Monotheism by : Jan Assmann

Download or read book The Price of Monotheism written by Jan Assmann and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion. In this nuanced consideration of his own controversial Moses the Egyptian, renowned Egyptologist Jan Assmann answers his critics, extending and building upon ideas from his previous book. Maintaining that it was indeed the Moses of the Hebrew Bible who introduced the true-false distinction in a permanent and revolutionary form, Assmann reiterates that the price of this monotheistic revolution has been the exclusion, as paganism and heresy, of everything deemed incompatible with the truth it proclaims. This exclusion has exploded time and again into violence and persecution, with no end in sight. Here, for the first time, Assmann traces the repeated attempts that have been made to do away with this distinction since the early modern period. He explores at length the notions of primary versus secondary religions, of "counter-religions," and of book religions versus cultic religions. He also deals with the entry of ethics into religion's very core. Informed by the debate his own work has generated, he presents a compelling lesson in the fluidity of cultural identity and beliefs.

The Invention of Religion

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691203199
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Book Synopsis The Invention of Religion by : Jan Assmann

Download or read book The Invention of Religion written by Jan Assmann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Book of Exodus may be the most consequential story ever told. But its spectacular moments of heaven-sent plagues and parting seas overshadow its true significance, says Jan Assmann, a leading historian of ancient religion. The story of Moses guiding the enslaved children of Israel out of captivity to become God's chosen people is the foundation of an entirely new idea of religion, one that lives on today in many of the world's faiths. The Invention of Religion sheds new light on ancient scriptures to show how Exodus has shaped fundamental understandings of monotheistic practice and belief." --

Finding God in the Waves

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Publisher : Convergent Books
ISBN 13 : 1101906049
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Finding God in the Waves by : Mike McHargue

Download or read book Finding God in the Waves written by Mike McHargue and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Science Mike' draws on his personal experience to tell the unlikely story of how science led him back to faith. Among other revelations, we learn what brain scans reveal about what happens when we pray, how fundamentalism affects the psyche, and how God is revealed not only in scripture, but in the night sky, in subatomic particles, and in us"--Dust jacket flap.

Moses and Multiculturalism

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520262549
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Moses and Multiculturalism by : Barbara Johnson

Download or read book Moses and Multiculturalism written by Barbara Johnson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countering impressions of Moses reinforced by Sigmund Freud in his epoch-making Moses and Monotheism, this concise, engaging work begins with the perception that the story of Moses is at once the most nationalist and the most multicultural of all foundation narratives. Weaving together various texts—biblical passages, philosophy, poems, novels, opera, and movies—Barbara Johnson explores how the story of Moses has been appropriated, reimagined, and transmitted across cultures and historical moments. But she finds that already in the Bible, the story of Moses is a multicultural story, the story of someone who functions well in a world to which he, unbeknownst to the casual observer, does not belong. Using the Moses story as a lens through which to view questions at the heart of contemporary literary, philosophical, and ethical debates, Johnson shows how, through a close analysis of this figure's recurrence through time, we might understand something of the paradoxes, if not the impasses of contemporary multiculturalism.

From Akhenaten to Moses

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9774166310
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (741 download)

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Book Synopsis From Akhenaten to Moses by : Jan Assmann

Download or read book From Akhenaten to Moses written by Jan Assmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically. Akhenaten and Moses--a figure of history and a figure of tradition--symbolize this shift in its incipient, revolutionary stages and represent two civilizations that were brought into the closest connection as early as the Book of Exodus, where Egypt stands for the old world to be rejected and abandoned in order to enter the new one. The seven chapters of this seminal study shed light on the great transformation from different angles. Between Egypt in the first chapter and monotheism in the last, five chapters deal in various ways with the transition from one to the other, analyzing the Exodus myth, understanding the shift in terms of evolution and revolution, confronting Akhenaten and Moses in a new way, discussing Karl Jaspers' theory of the Axial Age, and dealing with the eighteenth-century view of the Egyptian mysteries as a cultural model.