TY  - GEN
T1  - Freud's Moses : Judaism terminable and interminable
A1  - Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim, 1932-2009
A2  - Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 1991
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn951623268
AB  - 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." --
OP  - 159
CN  - BS580.M6 Y47 1991eb
SN  - 9780300191820
SN  - 0300191820
SN  - 0300049218
SN  - 9780300049213
KW  - Freud, Sigmund, : 1856-1939. : Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion.
KW  - Moses : (Biblical leader)
KW  - Freud, Sigmund, : 1856-1939.
KW  - Freud, Sigmund, : 1856-1939 : Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion
KW  - Freud, Sigmund, : 1856-1939
KW  - Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion (Freud, Sigmund)
KW  - Freud, Sigmund : 1856-1939 : Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion
KW  - Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939). : Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion.
KW  - Freud, Sigmund, : (1856-1939)
KW  - Freud, Sigmund. : Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion.
KW  - Egyptian literature : Relation to the Old Testament.
KW  - Monotheism.
KW  - Psychology, Religious.
KW  - Judaism : History.
KW  - Psychoanalysis : History.
KW  - Judaism : history
KW  - Judaism : psychology
KW  - Psychoanalysis : history
KW  - Littérature égyptienne : Relation avec l'Ancien Testament.
KW  - Monothéisme.
KW  - Psychologie religieuse.
KW  - Judaïsme : Histoire.
KW  - Psychanalyse : Histoire.
KW  - monotheism.
KW  - psychology of religion.
KW  - RELIGION : Judaism : General.
KW  - Egyptian literature : Relation to the Old Testament
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Monotheism
KW  - Psychoanalysis
KW  - Psychology, Religious
KW  - Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion (Freud)
KW  - Jodendom.
KW  - Psychoanalyse.
KW  - Psychanalyse et judaïsme.
KW  - History
ER  -