Freud’s Moses and Fromm’s Freud
- 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.
| Author details: | Ronen PinkasORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/21692327.2022.2140184 |
| ISSN: | 2169-2327 |
| ISSN: | 2169-2335 |
| ISSN: | 1783-1377 |
| ISSN: | 0006-2278 |
| Title of parent work (English): | International Journal of Philosophy and Theology |
| Subtitle (English): | Erich Fromm’s silence on Freud’s Moses – A silence of negation or a silence of consent? |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Place of publishing: | Abingdon |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2022 |
| Publication year: | 2022 |
| Release date: | 2023/03/01 |
| Tag: | Jewish philosophy; Judaism and psychoanalysis; Moses and monotheism |
| Volume: | 83 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| First page: | 240 |
| Last Page: | 262 |
| Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Jüdische Theologie |
| DDC classification: | 2 Religion / 20 Religion / 200 Religion |
| Publishing method: | Open Access |
| License (German): |  CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
