Moses and civilization : the meaning behind Freud's myth /

"Freud's major cultural books, Totem and Taboo and Moses and Monotheism, have long been viewed as failed attempts at historical reconstruction. This book, by an anthropologist and practicing psychoanalyst, offers a brilliant reinterpretation of these works, presenting them instead as versi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Paul, Robert A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1996.
Temas:
Freud, Sigmund, > 1856-1939 > Religion.
Moses > (Biblical leader)
Freud, Sigmund, > 1856-1939
Freud, Sigmund, > 1856-1939.
Freud, Sigmund > 1856-1939 > Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion
Moïse > (personnage biblique)
Freud, Sigmund. > Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion.
Bible. > Pentateuch > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible > Pentateuch
Bible. > Pentateuque > Critique, interprétation, etc.
Bible. > Pentateuch.
Bible. > A.T. > Critique, interprétation, etc.
Psychoanalysis and religion.
Psychology and religion.
Social values.
Freudian Theory
Religion and Psychology
Social Values
Psychanalyse > Aspect religieux.
Psychologie et religion.
Valeurs sociales.
PSYCHOLOGY > Movements > Behaviorism.
Religion.
Psychoanalyse
Religion
Psychoanalyse.
Geloof.
Cultuur.
Psychanalyse et religion.
Psykoanalys och religion.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Freud's major cultural books, Totem and Taboo and Moses and Monotheism, have long been viewed as failed attempts at historical reconstruction. This book, by an anthropologist and practicing psychoanalyst, offers a brilliant reinterpretation of these works, presenting them instead as versions and unwitting analyses of the great mythic narrative underlying Judeo-Christian civilization, found principally in the Five Books of Moses." "Synthesizing aspects of structural anthropology, symbolic anthropology, evolutionary theory, and psychoanalysis, Robert A. Paul reveals the numerous parallels between Freud's myth of the primal horde and the Torah text. He shows how the primal-horde scenario is the basis for the Christian myth of the life and death of Jesus. And he details the way Freud's myth corresponds to the unconscious fantasy structure of the obsessional personality - a style of personality dynamics Paul sees as essential to maintaining the bureaucratic institutions that comprise Western civilization's most distinctive features. Paul thus corrects and completes Freud's project, creating a valid psychoanalytic account of Western civilization that rests not on faulty speculation, as did Freud's, but on a detailed reading of the biblical text and of the legends, folklore, commentaries, and social practices surrounding it."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (268 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-262) and index.
ISBN:9780300159196
0300159196

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