Freud has all sorts of fascinating ideas and somewhat 'surprising' sides to his own character, but generally overwhelmed by the simplistic reductionism that made his depth psychology an easy target, Ego, Superego, Id, "It's all about sex, Oedipus Complexes Electra Complexes" blah blah blah. THAT is the stereotype, he is actually great fun to read, approached as if you had never heard of him, or about those caricatures. Not saying he was exactly 'progressive and a crypto-feminist,' of course not!
Moses and Monotheism (German: Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion, lit. 'The man Moses and the monotheist religion') is a 1939 book about the origins of monotheism written by Sigmund Freud,[1] the founder of psychoanalysis. It is Freud's final original work and it was completed in the summer of 1939 when Freud was, effectively speaking, already "writing from his death-bed."[2][3] It appeared in English translation the same year.
Moses and Monotheism shocked many of its readers because of Freud's suggestion that Moses was actually born into an Egyptian household, rather than being born as a Hebrew slave and merely raised in the Egyptian royal household as a ward (as recounted in the Book of Exodus).[4][5] Freud proposed that Moses had been a priest of Akhenaten who fled Egypt after the pharaoh's death and perpetuated monotheism through a different religion,[6] and that he was murdered by his followers, who then via reaction formation revered him and became irrevocably committed to the monotheistic idea he represented.[1]
Summary
Further information: Sigmund Freud's views on religion, Origins of Judaism, The Exodus, and Yahwism
The book consists of three essays and is an extension of Freud's work on psychoanalytic theory as a means of generating hypotheses about historical events, in combination with his obsessive fascination with Egyptological scholarship, archaeology, and antiquities.[7][8] Freud hypothesizes that Moses was not Hebrew, but actually born into Ancient Egyptian nobility and was probably a follower of Akhenaten, "the world's earliest recorded monotheist."[9]
The biblical account of Moses is reinterpreted by Freud in light of new findings at Tel-El-Amarna. Archaeological evidence of the Amarna Heresy, Akhenaten's monotheistic worship of the Ancient Egyptian solar god Aten, had only been discovered in 1887 and the interpretation of that evidence was still in an early phase.[10] Freud's monograph on the subject, for all the controversy that it ultimately provoked, was one of the first popular accounts of these findings.[7]
In Freud's retelling of the events, Moses led only his close followers into freedom (during an unstable period in Ancient Egyptian history after Akhenaten's death ca. 1350 BCE), that they subsequently killed the Egyptian Moses in rebellion, and still later joined with another monotheistic tribe in Midian who worshipped a volcano god called Yahweh.[4][11] Freud supposed that the monotheistic solar god Aten of the Egyptian Moses was fused with Yahweh, the Midianite volcano god, and that the deeds of Moses were ascribed to a Midianite priest who also came to be called Moses.[12] Moses, in other words, is a composite figure, from whose biography the uprising and murder of the original Egyptian Amarna-cult priest has been excised.[4]
Freud explains that centuries after the murder of the Egyptian Moses, the rebels regretted their action, thus forming the concept of the Messiah as a hope for the return of Moses as the Saviour of the Israelites. *****
Another Oregonian, with a cat I never expected or planned for, because my close friend was found unconscious on the street from a gunshot. I knew she (cat) was alone at his apartment while he was at the hospital, still unconscious so I got the managers at his building to let me in to rescue her and now I've had her for a year.
I’m sorry about your friend Donald. It was so kind of you to think about his cat and take her in. I love my cats and they are great companions. I hope she is to you as well.
Homer, Bill, Velma, Midnight, Stink, Hercules, Homer again, Kittentail...I must have cohabited with 50 cats during my 87 years, and my wife and I are down to two right now. God willing, we'll all punch out together.
Greetings from Cornwall-on-Hudson, a village you might remember from your Academy days, since we're pretty much athwart West Point. I'm proud of our little town, since there is not a single sign, billboard, hoarding, reference or memorial to the fact that WE were the progenitor of Trump, when he attended New York Military Academy, a mile from where I sit typing. We are all quietly embarrassed.
Since I've lived here for over half a century, I remember watching Memorial Day parades in which the NYMA student body paraded. We'd joke that we were watching the teenage future despots of Africa, Central America, Uruguay, the Philippines and Southeast Asia, but little did we then know that we were also glimpsing a little towhead who would go on to destroy our country.
Makes me think of the old conundrum, "If you could have throttled Hitler in his crib, would you have?"
Defunct NYMA and no academic records of Cadet Bonespurs are accessible, like all the rest, if they were of any merit we would would never hear the end of it!
Corollary: put off and/or made others hostile including those coming from wealth.
(Is not odd or unusual for a boy, then a man with his personality disorders to be friendless yet put his trust in others with similar personality traits regardless of their socioeconomic or educational status.)
I read (wapo?) that musk has restricted twitter to members only—temporarily, he said. The writer implied he may have to reverse the decision. I'm a nonmember regular—didn't realize that many others lurk.
Oh, we love kittens. It makes us sad that we are too old to have more, but at 72 and nearly 88 we would not outlive them and it would be mean to disrupt them from the only home they would have only known. Our plan is to wait until our girls (14, 17, 20) are gone, then to adopt a bonded pair of old kitties whose people had to give them up. As you can see, we haven’t had kittens for 14 years. Yours are so sweet, and impeccable provenance. Enjoy! Love to Gracie, too.
I love tabbies and black cats. Of the nine I’ve had in my life, 6 were tabs and 3 were black. But my latest tabby is actually part tabby and part torty. She has the most amazing fur pattern; part tabby and part torty.
Her name is Vivian Biden. Your kittens are gorgeous - but of course, you knew that. Do any of them have part torty?
I'm not too far away, and I love grey cats, so I've been trying to convince my 14-yr-old kitty that he'd enjoy having a little buddy, but so far no luck. Sigh.
Well, they're sacked out. Adorable.
I assume Graycie stays, perhaps with a chastity belt.
My heart, be still.
Looks like the black cat is gone....
Asleep elsewhere.
He’s still here! He was in my lap.
Everybody needs a kitten day with all that's going on "out there." Always glad to see the kitty updates.
Tranquility base- good medicine!
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.” – Sigmund Freud
Did Sigmund really say that? :-)
Freud has all sorts of fascinating ideas and somewhat 'surprising' sides to his own character, but generally overwhelmed by the simplistic reductionism that made his depth psychology an easy target, Ego, Superego, Id, "It's all about sex, Oedipus Complexes Electra Complexes" blah blah blah. THAT is the stereotype, he is actually great fun to read, approached as if you had never heard of him, or about those caricatures. Not saying he was exactly 'progressive and a crypto-feminist,' of course not!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_and_Monotheism - This one tends to really stun people, take a quick look at this summary - excerpt , and you can see why!
Moses and Monotheism (German: Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion, lit. 'The man Moses and the monotheist religion') is a 1939 book about the origins of monotheism written by Sigmund Freud,[1] the founder of psychoanalysis. It is Freud's final original work and it was completed in the summer of 1939 when Freud was, effectively speaking, already "writing from his death-bed."[2][3] It appeared in English translation the same year.
Moses and Monotheism shocked many of its readers because of Freud's suggestion that Moses was actually born into an Egyptian household, rather than being born as a Hebrew slave and merely raised in the Egyptian royal household as a ward (as recounted in the Book of Exodus).[4][5] Freud proposed that Moses had been a priest of Akhenaten who fled Egypt after the pharaoh's death and perpetuated monotheism through a different religion,[6] and that he was murdered by his followers, who then via reaction formation revered him and became irrevocably committed to the monotheistic idea he represented.[1]
Summary
Further information: Sigmund Freud's views on religion, Origins of Judaism, The Exodus, and Yahwism
The book consists of three essays and is an extension of Freud's work on psychoanalytic theory as a means of generating hypotheses about historical events, in combination with his obsessive fascination with Egyptological scholarship, archaeology, and antiquities.[7][8] Freud hypothesizes that Moses was not Hebrew, but actually born into Ancient Egyptian nobility and was probably a follower of Akhenaten, "the world's earliest recorded monotheist."[9]
The biblical account of Moses is reinterpreted by Freud in light of new findings at Tel-El-Amarna. Archaeological evidence of the Amarna Heresy, Akhenaten's monotheistic worship of the Ancient Egyptian solar god Aten, had only been discovered in 1887 and the interpretation of that evidence was still in an early phase.[10] Freud's monograph on the subject, for all the controversy that it ultimately provoked, was one of the first popular accounts of these findings.[7]
In Freud's retelling of the events, Moses led only his close followers into freedom (during an unstable period in Ancient Egyptian history after Akhenaten's death ca. 1350 BCE), that they subsequently killed the Egyptian Moses in rebellion, and still later joined with another monotheistic tribe in Midian who worshipped a volcano god called Yahweh.[4][11] Freud supposed that the monotheistic solar god Aten of the Egyptian Moses was fused with Yahweh, the Midianite volcano god, and that the deeds of Moses were ascribed to a Midianite priest who also came to be called Moses.[12] Moses, in other words, is a composite figure, from whose biography the uprising and murder of the original Egyptian Amarna-cult priest has been excised.[4]
Freud explains that centuries after the murder of the Egyptian Moses, the rebels regretted their action, thus forming the concept of the Messiah as a hope for the return of Moses as the Saviour of the Israelites. *****
So relaxed. They are beautiful. Although I have a rather large cat family already, if Oregon was not so far from you, I would take one. 😿
Another Oregonian, with a cat I never expected or planned for, because my close friend was found unconscious on the street from a gunshot. I knew she (cat) was alone at his apartment while he was at the hospital, still unconscious so I got the managers at his building to let me in to rescue her and now I've had her for a year.
I’m sorry about your friend Donald. It was so kind of you to think about his cat and take her in. I love my cats and they are great companions. I hope she is to you as well.
Your post has been highly anticipated. Harry and l were discussing whether we should drive from Queens County for a peek!
Our strays were allegedly from the Bronx: “Missy” (misdemeanour) and “Fella” (felony).
Make sure you properly investigate the candidates before you make your decisions!
Homer, Bill, Velma, Midnight, Stink, Hercules, Homer again, Kittentail...I must have cohabited with 50 cats during my 87 years, and my wife and I are down to two right now. God willing, we'll all punch out together.
Greetings from Cornwall-on-Hudson, a village you might remember from your Academy days, since we're pretty much athwart West Point. I'm proud of our little town, since there is not a single sign, billboard, hoarding, reference or memorial to the fact that WE were the progenitor of Trump, when he attended New York Military Academy, a mile from where I sit typing. We are all quietly embarrassed.
Since I've lived here for over half a century, I remember watching Memorial Day parades in which the NYMA student body paraded. We'd joke that we were watching the teenage future despots of Africa, Central America, Uruguay, the Philippines and Southeast Asia, but little did we then know that we were also glimpsing a little towhead who would go on to destroy our country.
Makes me think of the old conundrum, "If you could have throttled Hitler in his crib, would you have?"
Defunct NYMA and no academic records of Cadet Bonespurs are accessible, like all the rest, if they were of any merit we would would never hear the end of it!
Where is that one guy who polished his shoes and brass for the future despot?
A major oddity to me about Trump is that from all of his school days, he has not one, repeat, not one friend.
One would think that for K-16 Trump had gone exclusively to online schools (aka: diploma mills).
Corollary: put off and/or made others hostile including those coming from wealth.
(Is not odd or unusual for a boy, then a man with his personality disorders to be friendless yet put his trust in others with similar personality traits regardless of their socioeconomic or educational status.)
Your house is filled with stuff, happy people and many kitties! How wonderfully normal!
Oh, and I heard Twitter is broken...hope it's true!
I read (wapo?) that musk has restricted twitter to members only—temporarily, he said. The writer implied he may have to reverse the decision. I'm a nonmember regular—didn't realize that many others lurk.
"Musk Says Twitter Is Limiting Number of Posts Users Can Read
"The change on Saturday came as thousands of users complained about getting an error message that they had 'exceeded' their 'rate limit.' " https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/business/twitter-rate-limit-elon-musk.html
Well done Team Truscott!!! ; )))
Oh, we love kittens. It makes us sad that we are too old to have more, but at 72 and nearly 88 we would not outlive them and it would be mean to disrupt them from the only home they would have only known. Our plan is to wait until our girls (14, 17, 20) are gone, then to adopt a bonded pair of old kitties whose people had to give them up. As you can see, we haven’t had kittens for 14 years. Yours are so sweet, and impeccable provenance. Enjoy! Love to Gracie, too.
I love tabbies and black cats. Of the nine I’ve had in my life, 6 were tabs and 3 were black. But my latest tabby is actually part tabby and part torty. She has the most amazing fur pattern; part tabby and part torty.
Her name is Vivian Biden. Your kittens are gorgeous - but of course, you knew that. Do any of them have part torty?
I’ve had several tortoise shell tabbies over the years. Always females, gorgeous cats.
Everyone looks very relaxed. Happy weekend, everyone.
I'm not too far away, and I love grey cats, so I've been trying to convince my 14-yr-old kitty that he'd enjoy having a little buddy, but so far no luck. Sigh.
What a nice picture! Have a great day off, and hopefully the ones not spoken for will be shortly.