{"title":"Freud's Moses, Schoenberg's Moses, and the Tragic Quest for Purity","authors":"Pamela Cooper-White","doi":"10.1353/aim.2022.0009","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this essay, I review some general known parallels between Freud and Schoenberg, and what threads of influence can be discovered. I will briefly describe each of the two Moses works, followed by a summary of previous scholarly comparisons. I conclude with some new speculations about their different portrayals of this ancient biblical figure– and the ways in which their separate accounts reflect the larger preoccupations of each of them in the face of the trauma of Nazi aggression.","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AMERICAN IMAGO","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2022.0009","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:In this essay, I review some general known parallels between Freud and Schoenberg, and what threads of influence can be discovered. I will briefly describe each of the two Moses works, followed by a summary of previous scholarly comparisons. I conclude with some new speculations about their different portrayals of this ancient biblical figure– and the ways in which their separate accounts reflect the larger preoccupations of each of them in the face of the trauma of Nazi aggression.
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Founded in 1939 by Sigmund Freud and Hanns Sachs, AMERICAN IMAGO is the preeminent scholarly journal of psychoanalysis. Appearing quarterly, AMERICAN IMAGO publishes innovative articles on the history and theory of psychoanalysis as well as on the reciprocal relations between psychoanalysis and the broad range of disciplines that constitute the human sciences. Since 2001, the journal has been edited by Peter L. Rudnytsky, who has made each issue a "special issue" and introduced a topical book review section, with a guest editor for every Fall issue.