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geopolitics
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Identity
Israel
Judaism
Juliet Mitchell
Middle East
Moses
Orientialism
Palestine
political science
politics
psychoanalysis
psychology
Rose
Sigismund
world politics
Zionism
Product details
- ISBN 9781836740414
- Weight: 86g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this influential lecture, Edward Said explores Freud's foundational work Moses and Monotheism to rethink the relationship between identity, politics and psychoanalysis. The result is a study illuminating both Freud's thinking and that of Said, on whom the great psychoanalyst was a formative influence.
Was Moses Jewish or an Egyptian? The question undermines any simple ascription of identity, highlighting the limits of these categories. Said suggests that such an unresolved, nuanced sense of identity might, if embodied in political reality, form the basis for a new understanding between Jews and Palestinians. In contrast, Israel's relentless march towards an exclusively Jewish state denies any sense of a more complex, inclusive past.
With an introduction by Christopher Bollas and a response by Jacqueline Rose.
Was Moses Jewish or an Egyptian? The question undermines any simple ascription of identity, highlighting the limits of these categories. Said suggests that such an unresolved, nuanced sense of identity might, if embodied in political reality, form the basis for a new understanding between Jews and Palestinians. In contrast, Israel's relentless march towards an exclusively Jewish state denies any sense of a more complex, inclusive past.
With an introduction by Christopher Bollas and a response by Jacqueline Rose.
Edward Said (1935-2003) was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. The author of more than twenty books, his most celebrated publications include Orientalism; The End of the Peace Process; Power, Politics, and Culture; and the memoir Out of Place.
