Dialogue with Freud

spirituality progress in “Moses and Monotheism”

Abstract

In shape of a detailed dialogue with Freud, the author promotes the discussion concerning to spirituality progress that the Psychoanalysis’ creator attributed to Moses’ religion. Starting from the hegelian idea of evolution by integrating and overcoming in more complex ways, but always keeping the old ones together, this supposed progress is pictured in a judgmental frame. The spirituality of Aton’s religion, in the way it was imposed by Moses to Jewish people, unprepared to comprise it, was characterized, more fundamentally by the instinctive renounce that comes from prohibitions than by integration of sensitive, emotional and intellectual levels in an extensive conceptual dimension, what would define a genuine evolution. Anchored in Psychoanalysis and in philosophical developments, the author drives the discussion on the mentioned central theme, observing it from different angles.