FREUD & NON-EUROPEAN CL

by SAID,EDWARD W.

• ISBN13: 9781859845004
• ISBN10: 1859845002
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, Edward Said explores the profound implications of Freuds Moses and Monotheism for Middle-East politics today. The resulting book reveals Said's abiding interest in Freud's work and its important influence on his own. He proposes that Freud's assumption that Moses was an Egyptian undermines any simple ascription of a pure identity, and further that identity itself cannot be thought or worked through without the recognition of the limits inherent in it. Said suggests that such an unresolved, nuanced sense of identity might, if embodied in political reality, have formed, or might still form, the basis for a new understanding between Jews and Palestinians. Instead, Israel's relentless march towards an exclusively Jewish state denies any sense of a more complex, inclusive past.

Author Biography

Edward W. Said is University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

Table of Contents

Introducing Edward Said	1	(10)
Christopher Bollas
Freud and the Non-European	11	(46)
Edward W. Said
Introducing Jacqueline Rose	57	(6)
Christopher Bollas
Response to Edward Said	63	(18)
Jacqueline Rose
Notes	81