Freud’s Moses and Fromm’s Freud: Erich Fromm’s silence on Freud’s Moses – a silence of negation or a silence of consent?
- 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.
MetadatenAuthor: | Ronen Pinkas |
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Parent Title (English): | Interenational Journal of Philosophy and Theology, Routledge 2022, 23 pp. [open access via https://doi.org/10.1080/21692327.2022.2140184] |
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Document Type: | Articles |
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Language: | English |
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Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
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Release Date: | 2024/04/04 |
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Format: | PDF-file to download |
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IdNo: | Pinkas_R_2022a |
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Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature): | Articles / Artikel |
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Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive: | Articles / Artikel |
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