TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pinkas, Ronen
T1  - Freud’s Moses and Fromm’s Freud
BT  - Erich Fromm’s silence on Freud’s Moses – A silence of negation or a silence of consent?
JF  - International Journal of Philosophy and Theology
N2  - In 1939 Sigmund Freud published his latest book, Moses and Monotheism, which is his most unusual and problematic work. In Moses Freud offers four groundbreaking claims in regard to the biblical story: [a] Moses was an Egyptian [b] The origin of monotheism is not Judaism [c] Moses was murdered by the Jews [d] The murder sparked a constant sense of unconscious guilt, which eventually contributed to the rational and ethical development of Jewish monotheism. As is well known, Freud’s Moses received extremely negative reviews from Jewish thinkers. The social psychoanalyst, Erich Fromm, who wrote extensively on Freud as well as on Judaism and the biblical narrative, did not explicitly express his position on Freud’s latest work. This paper offers explanations for Fromm’s roaring silence on Freud’s Moses.
KW  - Judaism and psychoanalysis
KW  - Moses and monotheism
KW  - Jewish philosophy
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/21692327.2022.2140184
SN  - 2169-2327
SN  - 2169-2335
SN  - 1783-1377
SN  - 0006-2278
VL  - 83
IS  - 4
SP  - 240
EP  - 262
PB  - Taylor & Francis
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -