Creation – Loneliness – Incest – Death : A Freudian/Derridean Reading of the Garden Story
The article proposes a new reading of the Garden Story, based on the Freudian concept of the Oedipus complex and the Derridean concept of the supplement. The Woman is considered as an Oedipal replacement of the mother-Earth in its fruit-bearing capacity. At the same time, she can be likened to a sup...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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Biblical interpretation
Year: 2015, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 60-77 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament NBE Anthropology ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Garden Story
Freud
Derrida
Oedipus complex
supplement
creation
incest
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| Summary: | The article proposes a new reading of the Garden Story, based on the Freudian concept of the Oedipus complex and the Derridean concept of the supplement. The Woman is considered as an Oedipal replacement of the mother-Earth in its fruit-bearing capacity. At the same time, she can be likened to a supplement in the Derridean sense, intended to compensate for the Man’s loneliness. However, created from a part of the Man’s body, she remains a (dangerous) supplement and not a real Other and cannot divert the Man from the encroachment on Father’s rights (eating of the fruit). The loneliness of the first Man is therefore not overcome but transformed into the loneliness of the whole human species.
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| ISSN: | 1568-5152 |
| Contains: | In: Biblical interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685152-00231p03 |