Freud and the Non-European

Synopsis

‘said’s reading of freud's reading of the history of the jewish people is undeniably brilliant’ times literary supplementin this influential lecture, edward said explores freud’s foundational work moses and monotheism to rethink the relationship between identity, politics and psychoanalysis. The result is a study illuminating both freud’s thinking and that of said, on whom the great psychoanalyst was a formative influence. Was moses jewish or an egyptian? The question undermines any simple ascription of identity, highlighting the limits of these categories.