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J esus and Monotheism
Author(s) -
Anidjar Gil
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the southern journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2041-6962
pISSN - 0038-4283
DOI - 10.1111/sjp.12029
Subject(s) - monotheism , judaism , philosophy , christianity , taboo , antisemitism , freud's psychoanalytic theories , theology , psychoanalysis , sociology , psychoanalytic theory , psychology , islam , anthropology
From O edipus to M oses and beyond, F reud's last book has been read with singular obstinacy as addressing a J ewish (or anti‐Semitic) question, or as renewing a religious (or antireligious) agenda. Between A thens and J erusalem, from J udaism to a more general “monotheistic religion,” and from O edipus (the son) to M oses (the father), scholars have explored or refuted numerous traces the primal murder left and many among the founding fathers, the substitutes to which it gave rise. Yet it is easy to see that the reception of F reud has been fairly consistent in skipping over not so much the general religious (monotheistic, or even civilizational and universal) import of F reud's work, but rather the exorbitant centrality in it of J esus C hrist, the acutely singular question of C hristianity and its founder.