Michael Gordin, “Science and Pseudoscience” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Psychoanalysts and the Narrative
The book is about a psychoanalyst trying to rebut freud, who was incensed by this moses and monotheism book. The two sort of read threads that go througout its entire life are a particular interpretation of zionism and freudianism of some form or other. So the first part is going to be a reanalysis of freud's dreams. And the second part will be about a edipus, the central myth for freud. That is the myths. You can use the history to help re interpret the oedipus myth, and you can use the edipus myths to help reinterpret the history of egypt.
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