FREUD AND THE NON-EUROPEAN: THE FREUD MUSEUM LONDON LECTURE

London, England: Verso/Freud Museum, 2003. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. London, England: Verso/Freud Museum, 2003. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 84 pages. The last book published in the author's lifetime. One of the most brilliant essays on Sigmund Freud ever written in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, of which there are several. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by The Freud Museum London: Small-size volume format. Hard boards with titles on spine, as issued. Text by Edward Said. Introduction by Christopher Bolas. Afterword/Response by Jacqueline Rose. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Published on the occasion of the lecture given by Edward W. Said at The Freud Museum London in 2003. Presents Edward Said's "Freud And The Non-European". Expands on Freud's reminder that Moses was raised as an Egyptian whose undeniable Arab background has implications for Israel's quest - which Freud rejected - to define Jewish nationalist identity monolithically (rather than multi-nationally, as Freud espoused). "Quite differently from the spirit of Freud's deliberately provocative reminder that Judaism's founder was a non-Jew and that Judaism begins in the realm of Egyptian monotheism, Israeli legislation contravenes, represses, and even cancels Freud's carefully maintained opening-out of Jewish identity toward its non-Jewish background. Argues that Freud's controversial conclusion that Moses was an Egyptian, not a Jew, undermines any simple ascription of a pure identity and further, that identity itself cannot be thought or worked through without recognition of the limits inherent in it. Said suggests that such an unresolved, nuanced sense of identity might, if embodied in political reality, have formed or might still form the basis for a new understanding between Jews and Palestinians" (The Freud Museum). Until the very end, Said raised troubling questions that pleased neither Arabs and Palestinians nor Israelis and Jews. A hopeful skeptic, he became profoundly disenchanted, and concluded that the interminable conflict in the Middle East is unresolvable under the present conditions. One of his lasting contributions was his rejection of ALL forms of fanaticism: Muslim, Christian, and Jewish. An absolute "must-have" title for Edward Said and Sigmund Freud collectors. This title is a classic text. This is one of very few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Almost ALL copies available online have serious flaws (because they were pored over) or are subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the greatest literary and political writer/thinkers of the 20th century and our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER EDWARD W. SAID TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1859845002.