ABSTRACT
In this seventh chapter, we return to the theory about the configuration between established groups and outsider groups to think about the civilizing process of the Jewish people, as Sigmund Freud elaborated in Moses and Monotheism. In what was one of his last works, Freud presents his hypothesis about the formation of the Jewish people and the monotheistic religion. More than a work about a religion, his Jewish religion, what Freud presents is a new theory about the origin of culture. Freud situates, in this text, the function of denial (Verleugnung) of traumatic experiences and the process of transmission of trauma over generations as a historical truth that always presents itself in a distorted way. In addition, he understands the process of construction of identities (self-images and we-images) from the relationship with the other. A process that marks differences and imposes movements of exclusion and elimination of everything that is considered foreign or different from itself.
