Lessing und Freud: Eine Lekture der Ringparabel

Translated title of the contribution: Lessing and Freud. A reading of the Parable of the ring

Jakob Hessing*

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Abstract

Lessing's parable of the rings seems to promise an education of mankind, which has never materialized. Since it was written, the famous text has often been used as a substitute for a non-existent German-Jewish cultural history. In order to make its contradictions more comprehensible, a subtext underlying the parable is considered. The parable is read with the help of Sigmund Freud, in the light of Totem and Taboo: in a hermeneutics of suspicion.

Translated title of the contributionLessing and Freud. A reading of the Parable of the ring
Original languageGerman
Pages (from-to)564-579
Number of pages16
JournalPsyche (Germany)
Volume71
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2017

Keywords

  • Gotthold ephraim lessing
  • Heinz politzer
  • Nathan the wise
  • Parable of the ring
  • Repression

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