During the mid-1930s, as the Nazis were cutting a swathe through central Europe, Vienna-based psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud was writing his final work. Completed in 1939, Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion, known in English as ’Moses and Monotheism’, was a study of the origins of monotheism. A divisive book, in part because of its claim that Moses had been born Egyptian and not a Jewish slave, it forms the basis of Jenni and Lauri Luhta’s fascinating lecture-performance film.
Jenni Luhta
Freud
Lauri Luhta
Moses
During the mid-1930s, as the Nazis were cutting a swathe through central Europe, Vienna-based psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud was writing his final work. Completed in 1939, Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion, known in English as ’Moses and Monotheism’, was a study of the origins of monotheism. A divisive book, in part because of its claim that Moses had been born Egyptian and not a Jewish slave, it forms the basis of Jenni and Lauri Luhta’s fascinating lecture-performance film.
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