A portion of Coda 1 (The Murder of Moses and the Temporality of Trauma) was originally published in “The Psychoanalytic Origins of Literary Trauma Studies,” in Trauma and Literature, ed. Roger Kurz. © Cambridge University Press, 2018. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press through PLSclear.
A portion of Chapter 2 (“How can we sing a song of the LORD?”: The Compulsions of the Postexilic Unconscious) was originally published under the same title in Psychoanalytische Perspectieven, 42.1 (2024): 71–94.
Portions of Chapter 3 (Torah and / as Tradition) and Chapter 4 (“Stored like fragments in an ark”: Freud, Hamlet, and Filial Exodus) were originally published in chapter 6 of Coming Too Late: Reflections on Freud and Belatedness. © SUNY Press 2017.
A portion of Chapter 4 was originally published in “Tell My Story: Freud, Hamlet, and the Burdens of Self-Authorship,” Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, 52.4 (2019): 21–36.
I want to thank the Humanities Center at the University of Vermont for funding in support of the publication of this book. I would also like to thank the University of Vermont’s Department of English and the College of Arts and Sciences for other forms of support.