Freud's Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable
This remarkable book provides fascinating new insights into Freud's intentions in writing Moses and Monotheism-his only work specifically devoted to a Jewish theme. Yerushalmi presents the work as Freud's psychoanalytic history of the Jews, Judaism, and the Jewish psyche-his attempt, under the shadow of Nazism, to discover what has made the Jews what they are. In the process, Yerushalmi's eloquent and sensitive exploration of Freud's controversial final work provides a reappraisal of Freud's...
Search in google:
\ Mark EdmundsonYerushalmi brings his considerable learning...to bear on one of the central problems in understanding Freud, the question of his Jewish identity...Persuasive and absorbing. -- Washington Post Book World\ \ \ \ \ Michiko KakutaniImpassioned and lucied;...original and...brilliant. -- NY Times\ \
