Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 278 pages
- Published by: Yale University Press March 27, 1996
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0300064284
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0300064285
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Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Product Description
In this brilliant book, Robert A. Paul argues that
Freud`s theory of the origins of civilization is an unwitting analysis of the great mythic narrative that underlies Judeo-Christian thought found principally in the Old Testament`s Five Books of Moses. Synthesizing anthropology, psychoanalysis, and religion, Paul corrects and completes
Freud`s theory and presents a valid psychoanalytic account of Western civilization, one that rests on a detailed reading of the biblical text and the legends, folklore, commentaries, and social practices surrounding it.