| Sumario: | In Freud and the Non-European, Edward Said takes Freud's speculations about an Egyptian Moses in Moses and Monotheism as the basis for his faith in the resolution of intractable political antagonisms. In the tension, however, between his account of history as enabling such transformation and Freud's insistence on history as enacting the repression of such antagonisms, one can see why Said's invocation of Freud requires him to break from Freud's hypothesis of an inescapable "originary break." But Said's rhetoric, as this essay suggests, bears the mark of that wound's persistence despite his resistance to its structural imperative and his investment in historical change.
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