Dr. Yotam Hotam will examine Sigmund Freud's dual sense of identity as a secular modernist who rejects the obedience to Jewish law ("halacha") and as a lawful Jew who resists succumbing to the secularized-Christian modern culture.
Dr. Yotam Hotam is the 2015 Horace W. Goldsmith visiting Professor in Judaic Studies at Yale, a 2015-2016 Teaching Fellow of the Israel Institute in Washington, and a visiting Fellow of the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University. He is the author of "Modern Gnosis and Zionism: The Crisis of Culture, Life Philosophy and Jewish National Thought."
Location: Dodd 162
Please RSVP to judaicstudies@uconn.edu, as lunch will be served.
For more information, contact: Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at judaicstudies@uconn.edu