Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 19, 2002

Volume 30, Number 26

Jan Assmann

Scholar to discuss Freud's
view of the biblical Moses

Renowned Egyptologist Jan Assmann, a visiting professor in Yale's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, will present the annual Woodward Lecture on Monday, April 22.

His lecture, "Monotheism, Memory and Trauma: Sigmund Freud and the Biblical Tradition," will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Sterling Memorial Library, 120 Wall St. It is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.

In his talk, Assmann will discuss the interpretation of Moses in Freud's study "Moses and Monotheism," with reference to the biblical tradition, especially as recorded in the Book of Deuteronomy.

The Woodward Lecture is sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature, Religious Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.

Assmann has been director for many years of the Institute for Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. His many books include "Moses the Egyptian" and "The Mind of Egypt." In addition to Yale, he has taught at Harvard, Stanford and Rice universities; the Getty Research Center; the British Museum; and the Royal Anthropological Society.

Together with his wife -- Aleida Assmann, professor of literature at the University of Constance and currently the Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor in German -- the Egyptologist has been developing a general theory of cultural and collective memory. The couple has sponsored a number of conferences on this topic in Germany, and coedited and authored several books about their theory.

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