Freud and Monotheism

Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion

Gilad Sharvit, Karen S. Feldman (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2018
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-8002-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Gilad Sharvit (Edited By) Gilad Sharvit is a Townsend Fellow at the Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. Karen S. Feldman (Edited By) Karen S. Feldman is Associate Professor of German at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Binding Words: Conscience and Rhetoric in Hobbes, Hegel and Heidegger.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	12.06.2018
Reihe/Serie	Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
Co-Autor	Jan Assmann, Richard Bernstein, Willi Goetschel
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-8232-8002-0 / 0823280020
ISBN-13	978-0-8232-8002-5 / 9780823280025
Zustand	Neuware