The Man Moses and Monotheistic Religion – Three Essays: The Unveiling of a Murder

AN ANALYSIS OF THE FREUDIAN TEXT ON THE ORIGINS OF JUDAISM AND THE BEHAVIOR OF THE HEBREW PEOPLE Betty B. Fuks's book analyzes Freud's writings that comprise *The Man Moses and the Monotheistic Religion – Three Essays*. First published together in 1939, the Freudian text analyzes the origins of Judaism and seeks to understand the behavior of the Hebrew people by asking: how did the Jews become what they are and why do they attract such inextinguishable hatred? As the author shows, Freud's *The Man Moses* results in a broad study of human behavior in the face of phenomena present in both monotheistic religions and the totalitarian politics of the 20th century. With impressive erudition, Betty B. Fuks interposes dialogues between psychoanalysts and thinkers around the Freudian text – from Jacques Lacan to Giorgio Agamben, including specialists in Jewish studies such as Yosef Yerushalmi and Emmanuel Lévinas, as well as Zygmunt Bauman, Jacques Derrida, and Slavoj Žižek.