Comparing Moses, And Monotheism

A slight twist in the well-known historical stories or aspects can lead to different facts and opinions. A Report to the Academy by Franz Kafka and Moses and Monotheism by Sigmund Freud, are both texts that create a new identity of the unthinkable. A civilized ape that socializes with human beings and a biblical hero who could have been a different person than what people believe in the world today. Both texts are very convincing, their styles of writing portray confidence and sincerity, nevertheless, why is it that readers have a hard time processing and believing that both Kafka’s fiction and Freud’s argument might be possible in reality? It is evidently true that humans have been brainwashed with several aspects in life and therefore some …show more content…
Freud starts out by digging out the meaning of the name ‘Moses’, where it comes from, and what it means; “It is important to notice that his name, Moses, was Egyptian … the name Mose, ‘child,’ is not uncommon on the Egyptian monuments” (Freud, 5). Freud firmly believed that Moses could have been Egyptian and he enumerates several details that prove Moses to be a different person and even makes contradictions to Moses’ myth that everyone strongly believes …show more content…
As mentioned before, if human beings open up several concepts that have restricted several approaches to whatever the subject may be, the world people live in today could capsize and open up a new era. As Freud had discussed in his third chapter, The Analogy of Section I, the neurotic processes and experiences of human beings can also affect them to recognize and believe in what they come across in their childhood. As Freud specifies the neurotic stages of ‘early trauma, defense, latency, outbreak, partial return of the repressed material,’ these stages would have definitely triggered people into believing the so-called facts that could never be rearranged or