Said read Freud’s Egyptian Moses as a model for colonized identities

Evidence

In what may have been his last publication Edward Said wrote that Freud’s image of the Jewish people as founded by a foreigner (the Egyptian Moses) could be taken as prototypical for non-European identities today, marked as they are by the indelible impact of Western domination. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 789

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Said’s Orientalism thesis and postcolonial theory about hybrid origins — resonates with Bhabha’s hybridity concept cited in note 13.
• SEED: Angle: the idea that a founding figure being a ‘foreigner’ is paradigmatic for postcolonial identity could anchor an essay on how origin-stories handle the stranger-within.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 789