Sigmund Freud: Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion

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With Inge Rassaerts and Hubert Bail, music: Stephan Reiser

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is almost exclusively defined by his sexual theory, which many consider outdated, even if neuroscientists find some of it surprisingly valid. However, the many other aspects of this brilliant man are rarely mentioned. Freud said of himself that he never had a great fondness for the work of a doctor. "I am not a man of science at all, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am nothing but an adventurer - with the curiosity, boldness and tenacity of one." He saw himself in the same league as Galileo and Darwin. Sigmund Freud worked on "The Man Moses and the Monotheistic Religion" for many years, only completing the book in the last year of his life. He suspected that many would be disappointed if he called Moses a noble Egyptian and attributed all the wisdom of Egypt to him. Thomas Mann was not alone when he described Freud's writings as literature in the highest sense in his lecture "Freud and the Future".