...Nell Wasserstrom Through a close reading of Freud’s last major work, Moses and Monotheism (1939), this article considers the socio-political and literary stakes of a central element of Freud’s oeuvre, which reaches its fullest elaboration in the Moses text: belatedness. Belatedness, or deferred...

... change. This article examines three examples of social tie that are structured around the desire of the founder and the anxiety it induces: the interdiction of sacrifice and the worship of an absent God in the religion of Moses, the role of the transference in Freud's invention of psychoanalysis...

..., and it is not the only time Moses questions God’s plans. See Genesis 18.17–32 and Exodus 32.7–14. 25 Emphasizing the staging of the voice in Althusser, Balibar refers to the same episode: “[I]t is the veiling effect that produces an effect of transcendence, the effect of withdrawing the origin...

... transmitted through the figure identified as Moses to form the basis, a thousand years later, of Jewish monotheism.9 Whether this subterranean transmission is historically plau- sible is a matter of argument...

..., 1998 . “Melisma.” The Oxford English Dictionary . 2nd ed. 1989 . Métellus, Jean. La Parole prisonièrre . Paris: Gallimard, 1986 . Moses, Montrose Jonas. Another Treasury of Plays for Children . Boston: Little Brown, 1926 . 3 -95. Müller, Friedrich Max. Natural Religion . London...

... . Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination . New York : Random House , 1992 . Moses Edith . Unofficial Letters of an Official's Wife . New York : Appleton and Co. , 1908 . Roedigger David . The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class...

..., the primordial act of interpellation, the interpellation on the basis of which all others are conceivable, is God’s address to Moses: “God the Lord (Yah- weh) spoke to Moses in the cloud. And the Lord cried to Moses, ‘Moses !’ And Moses...

... devoted to the founder of psychoanalysis, the “old Freud” has remained as virtually unknown as the very early, infant Freud. Her research into the quarry of manuscripts that preceded the final draft and publication of his book on Moses led her to consider that late in life, exposed to the traumatic...

... Philosophy of History . Cambridge: Harvard up, 1965 . de Certeau, Michel. “The Fiction of History: The Writing of Moses and Monotheism.” The Writing of History . Trans. Tom Conley. New York: Columbia up, 1988 . 308 -54. Franko, Mark, ed. Ritual and Event: Interdisciplinary Perspectives . New York...

... of servitude, subject to the affects of things similar to himself that he imitates without wanting to or knowing that he does. It is this as well as other things that we have already demon- strated that Moses...

... of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi’s Freud’s Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable . For my purposes, however, what is significant is the way Derrida considers the death drive, particularly in the “Exergue” of his text, as a structuring “principle” of archive constitution and, as such, of life itself...

... of the journal was changed to La Tribune des femmes. Translations of the Saint-Simonien texts are mine. 3 For more information on the Saint-Simonians, see Adler, Charlety, Moses, and Thibert. 4 According to Claire Moses, the Napoleonic Code provided "a rallying point for feminine protest" (18). As it did so...

... Works of Sigmund Freud . Trans. and ed. James Strachey. 24 vols. London: Hogarth, 1955-74 . ____. “Family Romances.” 1909 . The Standard Edition . Vol. 9 . 237 -41. ____. Moses and Monotheism. 1939 . The Standard Edition . Vol. 23 . 6 -137. ____. “On Narcissism: An Introduction.” 1914...

... of the State, the bearer of the monarchic or presidential function exercising leadership , nor a “Legislator” in the ancient sense, repeatedly discussed in political theory after the privileged example of Moses. Rather, the new Prince is presented as an agent who is also an actor on the historical stage...

... be the recognition of the inauthenticity of all homes. In the context of the immigrant novel it is the latter that usually prevails. For instance, The Lonely Londoners begins one cold winter afternoon at Waterloo station, where Moses, an immigrant from Trinidad, waits to pick up a new immigrant from Jamaica. When...

... a reading of Freud’s Moses and Monotheism, where Moses serves both as perpetual child and founding father, both as law-bearer and breaker of that which regulates social narcissism. Kojève, who does not want to see authority bleed...

..., Book XX. On Feminine Sexuality: The Limits of Love and Knowledge, 1972–1973 . Ed. Miller Jacques-Alain . Trans. Fink Bruce . New York : Norton , 1998 . Librett Jeffrey S. “ Moses .” Handbuch Literatur und Psychoanalyse . Ed. Berndt Frauke Goebel Eckart . Berlin...

... distinctive contexts is the prevalence among the enslaved of those who are, in locally meaningful ways, foreigners rather than members of the polis. As Moses Finley writes, the “slave was always a deracinated out- sider—an outsider first...

... an extraordinary passage from Freud’s Moses and Monotheism, a passage that quite surely makes their point. And I insist on this certainty or surety here, for this certainty is somewhat the point: Moreover, in the case of some...

.... 7 . 3 -122. ____. “Instincts and Their Vicissitudes.” 1915 . The Standard Edition . Vol. 14 . 111 -40. ____. Moses and Monotheism: Three Essays. 1939 . The Standard Edition . Vol. 23 . 3 -137. ____. “Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis [Rat Man].” 1909 . The Standard Edition...