Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour Freud's Moses And Monotheism
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Jul 15, 2024 Exploring Freud's theories on Moses, monotheism, and Christianity. Delving into the Oedipus complex, law, economy, and social bonds. Discussing nationalism, exodus, religious persecution, and the evolution of monotheism through compromise. Exploring myths, religion, ambivalence, and the father-son dynamic. Touching on Christianity, sacrifice, forgiveness, debt, guilt, and psychoanalysis. Delving into biblical narratives, primal father's killing, desire, and societal disruptions.
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Akhenaten's Monotheism
- Akhenaten's monotheistic reign in Egypt was a short-lived but significant event.
- This period introduced the worship of the sun disc as a singular god, not merely a symbol.
Moses and the Exodus
- The Israelites' exodus from Egypt under Moses's leadership is a key historical narrative.
- Freud hypothesizes that Moses, potentially an Egyptian himself, sought to preserve monotheism.
Circumcision and the Levites
- Egyptians practiced circumcision, a fact Freud uses to connect Judaism's origins to Egypt.
- The Levites, the Jewish priestly tribe, may have descended from those who maintained Mosaic rituals.