Freud's Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable

✍ Scribed by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 191
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This prize-winning book provides fascinating insights into the controversy surrounding Freud’s feelings toward his own Judaism. Yerushalmi analyzes Freud’s intentions in writing Moses and Monotheism—his only work specifically devoted to a Jewish theme. 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prelude for the Listener
Ch1: The Fourth Humiliation
Ch2: Sigmund Freud, Jewish Historian
Ch3: Father-Religion, Son-Religion, and the "Jewish National Affair"
Ch4: A Case History?
Ch5: Monologue with Freud
AppI: Freud's Introduction to the Manuscript Draft (1934) of Der Mann Moses
AppII: Jakob Freud's Hebrew Inscription
AppIII: Unpublished Freud Correspondence
Provisional Postscript
Notes
Ch1
Ch2
Ch3
Ch4
Ch5
Bibliography
Index