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UC Berkeley Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Title Freud and Monotheism: Moses and the Violent Origins of Relligion Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3xk7594z ISBN 9780823280025 Authors Sharvit, Gilad Feldman, Karen S Publication Date 2018 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Freud and Monotheism Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Freud and Monotheism Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion Gilad Sharvit and Karen S. Feldman, editors Townsend Center for the Humanities University of California, Berkeley Fordham University Press New York Copyright © 2018 The Regents of the University of California All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means— electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other— except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. The publishers have no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third- party Internet websites referred to in this publication and do not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. The publishers also produce their books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Library of Congress Cataloging-i n- Publication Data available online at http://catalog.loc.gov. Printed in the United States of America 20 19 18 5 4 3 2 1 First edition Contents Introduction Gilad Sharvit and Karen S. Feldman 1 1. “Why [the Jews] Have Attracted This Undying Hatred” Richard J. Bernstein 27 2. Geistigkeit: A Problematic Concept Joel Whitebook 46 3. Heine and Freud: Deferred Action and the Concept of History Willi Goetschel 65 4. Freud’s Moses: Murder, Exile, and the Question of Belonging Gabriele Schwab 87 5. A Leap of Faith into Moses: Freud’s Invitation to Evenly Suspended Attention Yael Segalovitz 108 6. Freud, Sellin, and the Murder of Moses Jan Assmann 138 7. Creating the Jews: Mosaic Discourse in Freud and Hosea Ronald Hendel 157 8. Is Psychic Phylogenesis Only a Phantasy? New Biological Developments in Trauma Inheritance Catherine Malabou 177 9. Moses and the Burning Bush: Leadership and Potentiality in the Bible Gilad Sharvit 199 List of Contributors 219 Index 223 vi CONTENTS Freud and Monotheism Gilad Sharvit and Karen S. Feldman Introduction THERE ARE MANY points of entry to Sigmund Freud’s monumen- tal Moses and Monotheism (1939). Freud’s last work presented a remarkable contribution to a wide array of topics. The book revis- ited neo- Lamarckian theories of heredity, offered a theory of the formation of religions, mounted radical criticism against modern historiography, and presented a new psychoanalytic theory of the collective mind and of trauma. The historical context of the book, and Freud’s personal motivations, however, fed the book’s sense of urgency. Freud began to work on his new book on “The Man Moses” in Vienna in the summer of 1934. It was only a year after his works were added to the Nazi list of blacklisted books and burnt in the great fire that portended the dark times to come. In Moses and Monotheism, Freud addressed that upheaval. His book originated out of a desire to shed light on the anti- Semitism that would come to motivate the horrors awaiting Europe. As he revealed to his close friend the Austrian author Arnold Zweig, Freud would use his psychoanalysis to explain the long history of the hatred of his people.
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