EGYPTOMANIA.org
updated December 2008
©2004-2008 Noreen Doyle
(An incomplete and in progress)
Annotated Bibliography
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Philosophy, Psychology, & Politics

Bernstein, Richard J. 1998. Freud and the Legacy of Moses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Analysis of Freud 1939.

Burke, Janine.  2006.  The Sphinx on the Table:  Sigmund Freud's art collection and the development of psychoanalysis.  New York:  Walker. (Also published as The Gods of Freud: Sigmund Freud's art collection. Sydney: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006).

Colla, Elliot. 2007. Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian modernity. Duke University Press.

Doyen, Wendy Elizabeth. 2007. Presenting Egypt's Past: archaeology and identity in Egyptian museum practice.  MA thesis, museology, University of Washington, 2007. Egypt's postcolonial national identity the attitude toward Egypt's past as revealed through various aspects (exhibitions, administration, etc.) of Egyptian museums. Available on-line

Gallagher, Eugene B.  2002.  On the psychotheology of everyday life: reflections on Freud and RosenweigJournal of Nervous and Mental Disease 190.2 (February):126-127.

Grubrich-Simitis, I. 1997. Early Freud and Late Freud: reading anew studies on Hysteria and Moses and Monotheism. London: Routledge. Examines Freud 1939.

Hammond, Jeffrey.  2001.  Egypt Land.  Massachusetts Review 42.4 (Winter): 629-643. Examines the experiences of an Ohio man obsessed with Egypt. Also discusses similarities between ancient Egyptian religion and Christianity.

Hassan, F. A. 1998. Memorabilia: archaeological materiality and national identity in Egypt. In: Archaeology under Fire. Ed. L. Meskell. London: Routledge: 200-216.

Murray, Sharon Elleana.  2004.  The Gaze of the Beholder:  how national identity in nineteenth-century England was reinforced by the collection and display of ancient Egyptian material culture.  M.A thesis, Florida State University. The assertion of English identity through printed media, photography, and museum displays concerning ancient Egyptian artifacts and sites. Available on-line.

Lapert, Jay. 1995. Hegel and Ancient Egypt: history and becoming. International Philosophical Quarterly (New York - Namur) 35: 43-58. Hegel's criticisms of Egyptian culture (it lacks self-consciousness; is abstract but not abstract enough; and it is static) compared with the Egyptian notion of "becoming."

Leyland, Winston. 1971. Akhenaten of Egypt: no closet queen he. Gay Sunshine: a paper of gay militancy 9 (October-November):??-??.

Perniola, Mario. 1995.  Enigmas: the Egyptian moment in society and art. London: Verso.  Egypt as metaphor for the enigma of a simulteaneous past and future creating the ambiguous present in which past and future can be confused or combined.

NEW 12/08: Pope, Jeremy W. 2006. Ägypten und Aufhebung: G. W. F. Hegel, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the African Orient. The New Centennial Review 6.3 (Winter):149-192.

Reid, Donald M. 1985. Indigenous Egyptology: the decolonization of a profession? Journal of the American Oriental Society 105.2 (April-June):233-246.

Rowland, Ingrid D. 2008. Giordano Bruno: philosopher/heretic. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux.

Robert, M. 1976. From Oedipus to Moses: Freud's Jewish identity. Translated by R. Mannheim. New York: Anchor. Examines Freud 1939.

Selim, S. 2001. The new Pharaonism: nationalist thought and the Egyptian village novel, 1967-1977. Arab Studies Journal 8:10-24.

Smith, Charles D.  1973. The "Crisis of Orientation": The Shift of Egyptian Intellectuals to Islamic Subjects in the 1930's. International Journal of Middle East Studies 4.4 (October):382-410.

Trigger. B. 1981. Akhenaten and Durkheim. Bulletin de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale 81 supplement: 165-184.

Wagner, Frank Dietrich.  1994. Das Rätsel der Sphinx. Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philologie (Berlin) 113: 246-263. Hegel's view of the sphinx as the pharoanic motif par excellence.

Wood, Michael.  1998.  The use of the pharaonic past in modern Egyptian nationalism. Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 35: 179-196.

Yerushalmi, Y.H. 1991. Freud's Moses: Judaism terminable and interminable. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns. Examines Freud 1939.


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