Cover of Freud's Moses

Book 1993

Freud's Moses

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Publisher
Yale University Press
Language
English
Published
1993
  • Books of the Old Testament
  • Jewish studies
  • Judaism
  • Psychology
  • Relation to the Old Testament
  • Mann Moses und die monotheisti
  • Egyptian literature
  • Psychology, Religious

In a conversation that must have taken place around 1908 Freud told Theodor Reik the following joke: The boy Itzig is asked in grammar school: "Who was Moses?" and answers, "Moses was the son of an Egyptian princess."