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"في المدينة المصرية القديمة ، كاريرا (القاهرة) ، التي كانت ذات كثافة سكانية مرتفعة، حتى وإن مر يوماً لم يمت فيه سوى ألف من السكان، إعتُبر هذا اليوم شهد ازدهاراً في الصحة العامة. وكانت هذه الكثافة المرتفعة مصدر قلق دائم للأمراء والحكام المحليين. حتى قاموا بتقسيم المدينة بقدر كبير لأجزاء صغيرة، وحرصوا على الفصل بين... Continue Reading →
Article by Menna Medhat Introduction This is one of the dialogues by Plato, written around 360 BCE, and one that is usually ignored by nonspecialists due to its subject matter. Here Plato expresses his ideas on cosmogony, the origin of creation, and the nature of the soul, all of these queries have lost value in... Continue Reading →
Death of the Epic Article by Menna Medhat As discussed previously (see On the origin of Mythology , Moses and Monotheism – 02) the Epic tale has been passed down through generations, as an incomplete and fragmented tradition. In Moses and Monotheism, Freud declares that the art of the Epic has receded with time and ceased to exist... Continue Reading →
On the Origin of Myths Article by Menna Medhat Continuing our journey, (see Introduction to the book here Moses and Monotheism – 01) From the Greek mythos, myth means story or word, and mythology (mythos+logia from Greek meaning study) is the study of myths. Myths are the building blocks of religious thought. But what is the origin... Continue Reading →
Introduction Article by Menna MedhatMoses and Monotheism, the last work written by Sigmund Freud, published the same year of his death, 1939, was originally published as a series of 3 essays, meant as an extension of Freud’s work on Psychoanalytic Theory as a means of generating hypotheses about historical events. In the book Freud offers an in-depth... Continue Reading →
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