The Solomonic Fantasy
The Political Unconscious of the Imperialized Yehudites
Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2. Reihe;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Mohr Siebeck
- Date of Publication 28 November 2025
- ISBN 9783161611049
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages450 pages
- Size 232x155 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
In dieser postkolonial-psychoanalytischen Studie über 1 Könige 1,1-12,24 argumentiert Sonia Kwok Wong anhand von Freudschen Theorien, dass das salomonische Königreich eine kulturelle Fantasie darstellt, die den ambivalenten Wunsch der persischen Judäer widerspiegelt, den Platz ihrer persischen Oberherren einzunehmen und gleichzeitig deren unterdrückerische Züge zu kritisieren. This work is a postcolonial-psychoanalytic study of 1 Kings 1:1-12:24. Using Freudian theories, Sonia Kwok Wong argues that the Solomonic Kingdom is a cultural fantasy reflecting the Persian Judeans' ambivalent wish to take the place of their Persian overlords while also critiquing their oppressive traits.
MoreLong description:
In dieser postkolonial-psychoanalytischen Studie über 1 Könige 1,1-12,24 argumentiert Sonia Kwok Wong anhand von Freudschen Theorien, dass das salomonische Königreich eine kulturelle Fantasie darstellt, die den ambivalenten Wunsch der persischen Judäer widerspiegelt, den Platz ihrer persischen Oberherren einzunehmen und gleichzeitig deren unterdrückerische Züge zu kritisieren. This study takes on a historical-critical approach to the analysis of the Solomonic narrative (1 Kings 1:1-12:24) within the larger Deuteronomistic (Hi)Story (DH) by employing a postcolonial-psychoanalytic reading strategy. Sonia Wong argues that the DH is a cumulative, composite text which originated in the late fourth-century-BCE Persian Yehud. Through a Freudian model of fantasy as a disguised fulfillment for a repressed wish, Wong argues that the Solomonic Kingdom is a cultural fantasy that reflects the imperialized Yehudites' ambivalent wish to take the dominant, privileged position of the Persian imperializer through a pacifist mode of domination and to critique the imperializer's oppressive traits. The study provides a detailed textual analysis of the fantasy-thoughts, traces the fantasy-sources to the Persian context, and describes the psychic mechanisms involved in the fantasy-work.
MoreTable of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Prolegomena to a Postcolonial-Psychoanalytic Approach to the Deuteronomistic (Hi)Story
Chapter 3: A Proposed Model of Postcolonial-Psychoanalytic Criticism
Chapter 4: Wishes and Desires on the Manifest Surface
Chapter 5: Semanalysis: Dynamic of Drive in and out of the Solomonic Kingdom
Chapter 6: Pharaoh as a Composite Character
Chapter 7: Hiram as a Composite Character
Chapter 8: The Queen of Sheba as a Composite Character
Chapter 9: The Solomonic Kingdom as a Spector of Persian Empire
Chapter 10: Conclusion
