FREUD AND THE NON-EUROPEAN by Edward W. Said, Christopher INT>Bollas (Trans) ( 9781859845004 )

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Title:

FREUD AND THE NON-EUROPEAN

By:

Edward W. Said, Christopher INT>Bollas (Trans)

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

1859845002

ISBN 13:

9781859845004

Publisher:

VERSO BOOKS

Pub. date:

3 April, 2003

Pages:

108

Description:

Using an array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, and demonstrating an abiding interest in Freud's work and its influence on his own, Said explores the profound implications in Moses and monotheism for Middle-East politics today.

Synopsis:

Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, Edward Said explores the profound implications of Freud's Moses and Monotheism for Middle-East politics today. The resulting book reveals Said's abiding interest in Freud's work and its important influence on his own. He proposes that Freud's assumption that Moses was an Egyptian undermines any simple ascription of a pure identity, and further that identity itself cannot be thought or worked through without the recognition of the limits inherent in it. Said suggests that such an unresolved, nuanced sense of identity might, if embodied in political reality, have formed, or might still form, the basis for a new understanding between Jews and Palestinians. Instead, Israel's relentless march towards an exclusively Jewish state denies any sense of a more complex, inclusive past.Quite differently from the spirit of Freud's deliberately provocative reminders that Judaism's founder was a non-Jew, and that Judaism begins in the realm of Egyptian, non-Jewish monotheism, Israeli legislation countervenes, represses, and even cancels Freud's carefully maintained opening out of Jewish identity toward its non-Jewish background.

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1 port.

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Imprint:

Verso Books

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Non-returnable

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