Abstract
This chapter argues that Moses and Monotheism invites its readers to approach it in a state of “evenly-suspended attention,” the mindset that Freud recommends his colleagues practice in the therapeutic scene. This method of reading is contrasted with the prominent one in the discipline of literature, namely, close reading. Developed by the Anglo-American New Critics around the time of Moses ’ publication, close reading depends on what Freud terms “deliberate attention.” This chapter further demonstrates that reading Moses in a state of evenly-suspended attention is understood by Freud to require an act of faith in one’s unconscious or internal alterity. It concludes with a call for a reevaluation of what a Freudian or psychoanalytic reading is typically understood to mean in the humanities. That is, while Freud is conventionally thought of as the optimal close reader, Moses suggests otherwise.
Original language | American English |
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Title of host publication | Freud and Monotheism |
Subtitle of host publication | Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion |
Editors | Gilad Sharvit, Karen S. Feldman |
Place of Publication | New York, NY |
Pages | 108-137 |
Number of pages | 30 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780823280056 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2018 |
Externally published | Yes |
Publication series
Name | Berkeley Forum in the Humanities |
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Publisher | Fordham University Press |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Arts and Humanities
- General Psychology
ULI publications
- uli
- Anti-Jewish attitudes
- Anti-Semitism
- Antisemitism
- Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Collective memory
- Collective remembrance
- Common memory
- Cultural memory
- Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945)
- Emblematic memory
- Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Final solution
- Freud, Sigmund -- 1856-1939 -- <<Der>> Mann Moses
- Freud, Sigmund -- 1856-1939 -- <<Der>> Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion
- Freud, Sigmund -- 1856-1939 -- Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion
- Freud, Sigmund -- 1856-1939 -- Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion
- Freud, Sigmund -- 1856-1939 -- Moise et le monotheisme
- Freud, Sigmund -- 1856-1939 -- Moises y la religion monoteista
- Freud, Sigmund -- 1856-1939 -- Moses and monotheism
- Historical criticism
- Historical memory
- Historiography
- History -- Authorship
- History -- Criticism
- History -- Historiography
- Holocaust
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Holocaust, Nazi -- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945)
- Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945)
- Jews -- Nazi persecution
- Monotheism
- Myth
- National memory
- Nazi Holocaust -- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Nazi persecution of Jews
- Public memory
- Religion
- Religion, Primitive
- Shoʼah (1939-1945)
- Social memory
- Violence (in religion, folklore, etc.) -- Violence Religious aspects
- Violence -- Moral and religious aspects -- Violence Religious aspects
- Violence -- Psychological aspects
- Violence -- Religious aspects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews
- אלימות -- היבטים דתיים
- אלימות -- היבטים פסיכולוגיים
- אנטישמיות
- פרויד, זיגמונד -- 1856-1939 -- משה האיש ואמונת היחוד
- פרויד, זיגמונד -- 1856-1939 -- משה האיש והדת המונותיאיסטית
- שואה
- العنف -- أبعاد دينية
- العنف -- جوانب نفيسة
- اللاسامية
- المحرقة النازية (1939-1945)
- Ḥurban (1939-1945)
- Ḥurbn (1939-1945)