This book offers the first sustained examination of the cultural relations of the American and Soviet avant-gardes in a period of major transformation.
The Freudian Exodus redefines the traumatic experience that Freud argued was the origin of Judaic monotheism, the murder of Moses. Focusing instead on the Babylonian Exile, the study explores a series of topics understood as the aftershocks of that cultural trauma. Among these are the nature of anti-Semitism, Christianity’s vexed relationship to Judaism, the fantasmatic status of subjectivity, the cultural function of Torah, and Freud’s escape at the end of his life from Nazi-controlled Austria. The in-depth analysis of these topics aims for a new understanding of psychoanalysis, conceived more as a philosophy than as a mode of therapy.
Cover -- Watching the red dawn -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the red Atlantic -- 1. Constructivism in the USA: machine art and architecture at The Little Review exhibitions -- 2. The mass and the machine: The New Playwrights Theatre and American radical Constructivism -- 3. Kino in America: Soviet montage and the American cinematic avant-garde -- 4. Camera eyes: the worker photography movement and the New Vision in America -- Epilogue: red train journeys -- Bibliography -- Index
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