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Moses monotheism wasn’t simply “one God,” it was “one invisible God.” God in Judaism had to be internalized and since he was this made the Jew more capable of dealing in abstract ideas than the non-Jew. And here it seems that Edmundson is indicating that he finds in this book something beyond what has been described - an even more subtle Freud and a kind of Freudianism worthy of being embraced by future followers (including it seems Edmundson himself). Despite that he continued working on his Moses and Monotheism, a book he knew would antagonize Jews and Christians alike. He had the fame that he had never received in Austria. Not only was Freud confronted by Hitler, by way of the Nazis in Austria in a physical way, but Freud advanced Psychoanalytical theories about the nature of “the Patriarch” which Hitler exemplified perhaps better than anyone in modern times.įreud spent his last years in England which he loved above other countries.

His “parallel lives,” Freud and Hitler, approach is very clever and perceptive. I have a few quibbles with Edmundson’s text but as a final assessment decided he wrote a very entertaining and provocative book. The second was The Death of Sigmund Freud, Fascism, Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Fundamentalism. It was a “coming of age” sort of thing so I set it aside. The first was The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll, a Memoir. Early last month I referred to an article by Mark Edmundson, “The Ideal English Major” And a couple of days later decided I disagreed with a lot what he said and was puzzled by much of the rest.