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    Freud and the Non-European
    Freud and the Non-European
    Freud and the Non-European
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    Freud and the Non-European

    By Edward W. Said, Jacqueline Rose and Andy Lazris

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    Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, Edward Said explores the profound implications of Freud's 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVerso UK
    Release dateJan 7, 2014
    ISBN9781781685082
    Freud and the Non-European
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    Edward W. Said

    Edward Said (1935-2003) was one of the world's most celebrated and influential public intellectuals. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and was a spokesman and activist for the Palestinian cause.

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    • 4/5
      All the stuff I think about wrapped into one frequently brilliant lecture.
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      a wonderfully subtle argument, then everything is blown in the last paragraph when Said suggests a reductive "solution" to the israeli palestinian problem which betrays everything he has argued up to that point.

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