Moses under investigation: Sigmund Freud and the Borgean labyrinth

Abstract

This paper aims to provide an interpretative intersection between Sigmund Freud's “Moses and Monotheism” and Jorge Luis Borges' short story “Death and the Compass” (“La muerte y la brújula”). This entanglement will be built upon the investigative structure that is common to both texts: in Borges, through the detective story, and in Freud, through the analytical investigation. Both texts are constructed by means of a conjecture, which affects the relationship between reader and text and imposes a restructuration of reading into an act.

Keywords

• Escritura, judeidade, literatura e psicanálise.