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Freud and the Non-European Edward W Said

Freud and the Non-European By Edward W Said

Freud and the Non-European by Edward W Said

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Using an array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, and demonstrating an abiding interest in Freud's work and its influence on his own, Said explores the profound implications in Moses and monotheism for Middle-East politics today.

Freud and the Non-European Summary

Freud and the Non-European by Edward W Said

Banned by the Freud institute in Vienna, this controversial lecture eventually became Edward Said's final book. Freud and the Non-European builds on Said's abiding interest in the psychoanalyst's work to examine Freud's assumption that Moses was an Egyptian and from there explore the limits of identity. Such an unresolved, nuanced sense of identity, Said argues, might one day form the basis for a new understanding between Israelis and Palestinians.

Freud and the Non-European Reviews

An intriguing critique of Freud's work that is complemented by Rose's commentary. * Multicultural Review *
His reading of Freud's reading of the history of the Jewish people is undeniably brilliant, and persuades the reader yet further that the attempts by the Likudniks and fundamentalist Zionists to harden Judaism into one particular model of Zionism tied to one particular plot of land is both intellectually flawed and a betrayal of Judaism's pluralist history. * Times Literary Supplement *
I heard ... Edward Said give Freud and the Non-European as a lecture at the Freud Museum in London ... now it stands in gried and memory of that dear, good and great man as my pre-eminent book of the year. -- Tom Paulin * Guardian, Books of the Year 2003 *
The kind of moral and intellectual subtlety that Said calls for is quickly trampled upon as nations are made and remade. But if it doesn't shape momentous events, it does help record them more scrupulously. Said's influence grows more fruitfully (if slowly) on fellow academics and writers, who can no longer hope to explain the contemporary world by putting the adjective 'ancient' before the noun 'hatred'; they have to work towards a better sense of the ever-changing historical conditions under which identities appear so eternal. * Guardian *
The voice of the late Edward Said can still be heard in all its trenchant vitality. -- Marina Warner * Irish Times, Books of the Year 2003 *

About Edward W Said

Edward W. Said (1935-2003) was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Literature and of Kings College Cambridge, his celebrated works include Orientalism, The End of the Peace Process, Power, Politics and Culture, and the memoir Out of Place. He is also the editor, with Christopher Hitchens, of Blaming the Victims, published by Verso. New Left Review published an obituary in Nov-Dec 2003.

Jacqueline Rose is Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London. Her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision; The Question of Zion ; and the novel Albertine.

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GOR005205808
9781859845004
1859845002
Freud and the Non-European by Edward W Said
Edward W Said
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Verso Books
20030417
88
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