Lawrence J. Brown is trained in adult and child psychoanalysis and is a faculty member and supervising child analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, USA. He is also a supervising and personal analyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. Brown has lectured internationally and published papers on a variety of topics, including the Oedipal situation, Bion, intersubjectivity, field theory, and autistic phenomena.

List of Contributors

Series Editor's Forward

Gabriela Legorreta

Editor's Introduction to On Freud's "Moses and Monotheism"

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Editor's Introduction to Chapter 1

1. "The Jewish Offensive" - The Reception of Freud's Moses and Monotheism in Mandatory Jewish Palestine

Eran Rolnik

Editor's Introduction to Chapter 2

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2. Freud's "Phylogenetic Fantasy" and His Construction of the Historical Moses

Peter T. Hoffer

Editor's Introduction to Chapter 3

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3. The Probable in Nazi Times: The Opposing Fates of the Mystical and the Law.

Laurence Kahn

Editor's Introduction to Chapter 4

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4. "Moses - Freud's Literary Twin"

Merav Roth

Editor's Introduction to Chapter 5

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5. Memory and Historical Truth in Moses and Monotheism: The Contemporary Significance of "Historical Truth"

Sara Collins

Editor's Introduction to Chapter 6

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6. The Mule and the Dancer: Freud, Moses, and the Dilemma of the Hybrid

Sara Boffito

Editor's Introduction to Chapter 7

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7. The Puzzle of Freud's Puzzle Analogy: Reviving a Struggle with Doubt and Conviction in Freud's Moses and Monotheism

Rachel B. Blass

Editor's Introduction to Chapter 8

8. Der Mann Moses and the Man Freud: Leadership, Legacy and anti-Semitism

Shmuel Erlich

Editor's Introduction to Chapter 9

9. Freud: On Tradition

David Benhaim

Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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