Moses Lactans
"Evidence in Support of the Latent Mythic Value of Freud's 1914 "Moses of Michelangelo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6032740 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Moshe Halevi Spero (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 183-242 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American imago (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0065-860X • E-ISSN: 1085-7931 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/aim.2010.0009 |
| OpenAlex | W2121427736 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
It has become impossible to ignore the fact that Freud's landmark essay "The Moses of Michelangelo," however intriguing, is disproportionately flawed and methodologically problematic. Among the list of troubles, recent research emphasizes Freud's apparent misidentification of the actual biblical episode portrayed by Michelangelo, his one-sided emphasis on the harsh, paternal dimension implied by the biblical lawgiver's classical role, and the missed opportunity to develop a theory of aesthetic sublimation. And yet the 1914 text seems powerfully imbued with some sort of hidden, unnamed quality that compels writers to decipher the riddles. As such, it functions like a myth. I confront the latent "breast" or "nursing" thesis that has been suggested by me and other authors recently, and reconsider the evidence for a painful internal maternal representation in Michelangelo's earliest work to his last, crossing from Madonna to Moses, and perhaps perceived by Freud. The transformation of Moses into a Madonna may be hypothetical, yet the image is in fact anticipated in two important biblical passages, not brought into previous discussions
Art · Literature · Mythology · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Representation (politics) · Sublimation (psychology) · Symbol (formal) · Art, Aesthetics, and Perception · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Renaissance Literature and Culture
Freud's Mother, Ferenczi, and the Seduction Theory
“The ‘Bad Mother’ Freud Has Never Seen”
Speaking the UnspeakableReligion, Misogyny, and the Uncanny Mother in Freud's Cultural Texts
Freud and the Legacy of Moses
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
Speaking the Unspeakable
Art and Psyche
Mind and Its Relation to the Psyche‐soma
Toward a Psychoanalytic Iconography
On the Vicissitudes of Freud’s Early Mothering
Dream Psychology and the Analytic Situation
On Nachträglichkeit
Freud and the Figure of Moses
Book Section
The Face-Breast Equation
Recasting Moses
Sacred Objects/Illusory Idols
Observations from the Refuse-Heap
Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious 1905
The Rabbinic Mind
From Neurology to Psychoanalysis
Introduction to the Massoretico-Critical Edition of the Hebrew Bible
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |