During
the month of May a large part of the work on the Psychoanalytic theory and
modelization has been interrupted - as a result of a mailing to a list of
Egyptologists. Answering to a presentation of akhnaton.net, a Prof. Jan Assmann
suggested that I read the book that he wrote in 1997 about the memory of
Moses as an Egyptian. Other Egyptologists made the same reference. I read
and made a review of the book
.
Assmann's text
has been calling for an interpretation which is combined with a great
difficulty.
Especially since
most of his work converges on Freud's thesis of Moses, it is charged with
the malaise that Freud mentions in his Civilization and its Discontents.
Jan Assmann shows this symptomatology in the displacement he operates
from the concept of Egyptology, that he allocates to a Mosaic Discourse.
Then he brings it close to the Freudian view that declares this Mosaic Discourse
a failure. (Freud interpreted the Mosaic Discourse as the result of a murder,
thus identifying it with a guilt complex after the termination of Moses).
In so doing,
Assmann, as Freud, carries out Ramses' order, and executes the Ramessides
policy which intended to discard Akhnaton's long term enterprise (the failure
of Moses would mean the failure of Akhnaton, and thus would mean the
re-establishment of the power of an orthodox Egyptian Cosmothesim).
Although this
propaganda is not difficult to decipher, it has been quite effectively
mesmerizing during our civilization, since its ideology was repeated several
times in the course of history. And eventually, when we arrive at the 20th
century, it unfolds as the syndrome of an apocalypse, including genocides
and nuclear proliferations. This is the great difficulty in interpreting
the meaning of Egyptology and/or of the Mosaic Discourse, for it involves
an emotional tension that we are not easily willing to trigger.
It may suffice
to have a minimal examination of it, and just examine some aspects of the
Renaissance Inquisition that may be repeated in our present time:
People sometimes
say that fundamentalism looks like Inquisition - as for instance, recently
in Cambodia, or with Muslim terrorism. At the end of the Renaissance, the
Inquisition intended to destroy the Hermetic Tradition. Since, with its memory
of Moses, Hermeticism was perhaps the most 'Christian' stream in Middle-Ages
Europe, we can see Inquisition as a force of autodestruction. When Muslim
fundamentalism aims towards the elimination of Western Monotheism, it may
similarly show suicidal trends in the Western World, beside and within
an opposition toward Asia. If there is such a thing that Freud theorized
as Death Drive, one would not be surprised to find in the Western academia
this Inquisitional influence - Egyptology would especially be a
tool for the Guilt Complex.
As a matter
of fact, under the convolutional cover of lapses & omissions, Assmann
shows how the Egyptology , of which he is a representative, supports the
repression of the Mosaic Christian Model, and constitutes an accomplice
with the cultural Muslim Osman in his attack against Christianity.
This long reading,
review and page, that I have had to write during May makes an Akhnaton
file complete - which describes the hypothetic neurotic construct that processed
the identification of Akhnaton since the European discovery of Amarna in
the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Dr. William THEAUX, NYC 98/06/03 12:17:23
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