Open AccessThe origins of David Rapaport's 'Portrait of Moses' story
Author(s) -
Richard Raskin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
nordisk judaistik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.113
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2343-4929
pISSN - 0348-1646
DOI - 10.30752/nj.110168
Subject(s) - portrait , psychoanalytic theory , id, ego and super ego , order (exchange) , power (physics) , philosophy , psychoanalysis , art , art history , psychology , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , economics
David Rapaport, one of the founders of psychoanalytic ego psychology, used a story about a portrait of Moses in three of his papers in the 1950s in order to illustrate his view that the self has the power to shape its own nature. The present article traces the origins and evolution of that story through Latin, Islamic and Jewish versions.