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Moses and Monotheism (German: Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion, lit. ' The man Moses and the monotheist religion ') is a 1939 book about the origins of monotheism written by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. It is Freud's final original work and it was completed in the summer of 1939 when Freud was, effectively ...
Nov 14, 2006 · Moses And Monotheism. by. Freud,Sigmund. Publication date. 1939. Topics. RELIGION. THEOLOGY, Prehistoric and primitive religions. Publisher.
MOSES ANEGYPTIAN 13 Ontheother handthesuggestion haslongbeen madeandbymanydifferent people thatthename Moses derives from theEgyptian vocabulary. Instead ofciting alltheauthors whohavevoiced thisopinion Ishall quote apassage fromarecent workbyBreasted, 1anauthor whose History of Egypt is regarded as authoritative. "Itis important tonotice that hisname, Moses, was Egyptian. Itissimply theEgyptian word 'mose' meaning *child/ andis anabridgement ofa fuller form ofsuch names as'Amen-mose ...
Moses and Monotheism 11 Moses and Monotheism: Guilt and the Murder of the Primal Father The phenomenon of Jewish monotheism is as puzzling today as it was in the 19th century. It is, perhaps, even more so, because the rich discoveries in this century of the life and re ligions of near-eastern peoples of the first two pre-Christian
Nov 24, 2016 · Moses and Monotheism. Sigmund Freud. Leonardo Paolo Lovari, Nov 24, 2016 - History. The book consists of three essays and is an extension of Freud’s work on psychoanalytic theory as a means of...
He accepts the hypothesis that Moses was murdered in the wilderness, but that his memory was cherished by the people and that his religious doctrine ultimately triumphed. Freud develops his general theory of monotheism, which enabled him to throw light on the development of Judaism and Christianity.
Now let us turn to Freud's view of Judaism in Moses and Monothe-ism. I will follow the train of thought in the book and summarize it, always keeping an eye on the Jewish religion. In the first part ("Moses an Egyptian") Freud deduces from the name "Moses" and from the legend surrounding Moses' birth and childhood that he must have been an Egyptian.
If Moses was an Egyptian, he may well have been a monotheistic worshiper of Aton, a man of status who lost power with the overthrow of the 18th dynasty and of Ikhnaton, and who chose the Hebrews in Egypt as his people in order to promote his religion and found a new nation.
He accepts the hypothesis that Moses was murdered in the wilderness, but that his memory was cherished by the people and that his religious doctrine ultimately triumphed. Freud develops his general...
The book revisited neo-Lamarckian theories of heredity, offered a theory of the formation of religions, mounted radical criticism against modern historiography, and presented a new psychoanalytic theory of the collective mind and of trauma.
