Moses and Civilization : The Meaning Behind Freud`s Myth, Paperback by Paul, ...

Description: Moses and Civilization : The Meaning Behind Freud`s Myth, Paperback by Paul, Robert A., ISBN 0300206038, ISBN-13 9780300206036, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Freud's major cultural books, Totem and Taboo and Moses and Monotheism, have long been viewed as failed attempts at historical reconstruction. This book, by an anthropologist and practicing psychoanalyst, offers a brilliant reinterpretation of these works, presenting them instead as versions and unwitting analyses of the great mythic narrative underlying Judeo-Christian civilization, found principally in the Fivs of Moses. Synthesizing aspects of structural anthropology, symbolic anthropology, evolutionary theory, and psychoanalysis, Robert A. Paul reveals the numerous parallels between Freud's myth of the primal horde and the Torah text. He shows how the primal-horde scenario is the basis for the Christian myth of the life and death of Jesus. And he details the way Freud's myth corresponds to the unconscious fantasy structure of the obsessional personality—a style of personality dynamics Paul sees as essential to maintaining the bureaucratic institutions that make up Western civilization's most distinctive features. Paul thus corrects and completes Freud's project, creating a valid psychoanalytic account of Western civilization that rests not on faulty speculation, as Freud's did, but on a detailed reading of the biblical text and of the legends, folklore, commentaries, and social practices surrounding it.

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Book Title: Moses and Civilization : The Meaning Behind Freud`s Myth

Number of Pages: 278 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Moses and Civilization : the Meaning Behind Freud`S Myth

Publisher: Yale University Press

Publication Year: 2013

Item Height: 0.7 in

Subject: Movements / Psychoanalysis, Sociology / General, General, Biblical Biography / Old Testament, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament, Movements / Behaviorism, Psychology of Religion

Item Weight: 16 Oz

Type: Textbook

Author: Robert A. Paul

Subject Area: Religion, Social Science, Psychology

Item Length: 9.1 in

Item Width: 6.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback