Freud and the Legacy of Moses

by Richard J. Bernstein

Book Overview

Freud's last book, Moses and Monotheism, was published in 1939 during one of the darkest periods in Jewish history. This difficult book has frequently been vilified and dismissed because Freud claims that Moses was not a Hebrew but an Egyptian, and that the Jews murdered Moses in the wilderness. Richard Bernstein argues that a close reading of Moses and Monotheism reveals an underlying powerful coherence in which Freud seeks to specify the distinctive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521638771
• ISBN13: 9780521638777
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"