Creation – Loneliness – Incest – Death
: A Freudian/Derridean Reading of the Garden Story

The article proposes a new reading of the Garden Story, based on the Freudian concept of the Oedipus complex and the Derridean concept of the supplement. The Woman is considered as an Oedipal replacement of the mother-Earth in its fruit-bearing capacity. At the same time, she can be likened to a sup...

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Auteur principal: Slivniak, Dmitri M. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2015
Dans: Biblical interpretation
Année: 2015, Volume: 23, Numéro: 1, Pages: 60-77
RelBib Classification:HB Ancien Testament
NBE Anthropologie
ZD Psychologie
Sujets non-standardisés:B Garden Story
 Freud
 Derrida
 Oedipus complex
 supplement
 creation
 incest

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Édition parallèle:Non-électronique
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Résumé:The article proposes a new reading of the Garden Story, based on the Freudian concept of the Oedipus complex and the Derridean concept of the supplement. The Woman is considered as an Oedipal replacement of the mother-Earth in its fruit-bearing capacity. At the same time, she can be likened to a supplement in the Derridean sense, intended to compensate for the Man’s loneliness. However, created from a part of the Man’s body, she remains a (dangerous) supplement and not a real Other and cannot divert the Man from the encroachment on Father’s rights (eating of the fruit). The loneliness of the first Man is therefore not overcome but transformed into the loneliness of the whole human species.

ISSN:1568-5152
Contient:In: Biblical interpretation
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685152-00231p03