Abstract

PARENTE, Alessandra Martins. The Moses' name: a twist in the destiny's order. Nat. hum. [online]. 2018, vol.20, n.1, pp.134-148. ISSN 1517-2430.

The paper rescues the work "On the language in general and on the language of the men", written by Walter Benjamin in 1916, to approach the question of proper name. For Benjamin, naming the unborn is the only human act that comes close to the creative act of God in Genesis. This mark, imprinted by name, draws traces of human destiny, without determining it in an enclosed manner. A parallel between the Benjaminian prism and the Lacanian idea of self-name, as it appears in Seminar 9, Identification, is established in order to draw what is at stake in the biblical character of Moses. With this, it will be possible to analyze the consequences of the etymological alteration of the name Moses, undertaken by Freud in his classic "Moses and Monotheism". Such a change in the origins of Moses' name will also imply transformations of archaic structures of culture, whose vibrations can be felt in the present.

Keywords : Moses; proper name; Walter Benjamin; Jacques Lacan.

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