Moses, Freud and Frida Kahlo

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Contents v
3. New Perspectives on Freud’s Moses and Monotheism. Introduction 1
4. The Advance in Intellectuality: Freud’s Construction of Judaism 7
5. The Triumph of Pure Spirituality. Sigmund Freud’s Moses and Monotheism 19
6. Sigmund Freud’s Last Testament 45
7. The Puzzle of Freud’s Epistemology in Moses and Monotheism 65
8. Whose Trauma Is It Anyway? Some Reflections on Freud’s Traumatic History 77
9. The Double Death of Moses 93
10. Mind the Gap: Some Midrashic Propositions for Moses and Monotheism 117
11. Moses, Freud and Frida Kahlo 135
12. Freud, Zipporah, and The Bridegroom of Blood: National Ambivalence in the Bible 149
13. Freud, Moses and Modern Nationhood 165
14. Psychoanalysis and the Music of Charisma in the Moseses of Freud and Schönberg 177
15. A Special Case of German-Jewish Literature: Sigmund Freud’s Book on Moses 197
16. Myth into Novel: The Late Freud on Early Religion 203
17. The Return of Alchemical and Messianic Judaism: A Social Scientific De-Sublimation of Social Psychology in Freud and Dürkheim 217
18. Der Mann Freud: A Contemporary Perspective on His and Our Jewish and Psychoanalytic Identity 235
19. Selected Bibliography 245
20. List of Contributors 249
21. Acknowledgements 253
22. Index 255