The Greeks of V13
Os Gregos de V13
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61565/trivium.i2.726Keywords:
FREUD, HITLER, DIDIER-WEILL, JUDAISM, SIONISMOAbstract
Richard C. Ledes examines his collaboration with Alain Didier-Weill, whose play Vienne 1913 is the basis for his film V13, featuring Freud and Hitler. Ledes highlights Didier-Weill’s fictional account of a youthful Hitler whose initial hatred targets Hellenism before antisemitism. He argues Didier-Weill interprets Hellenism through Freud, who saw Greek tragedy as valuing the place of the other, a value Freud also associated with Judaism. This contrasts with late-19th-century ethno-nationalist uses of Greece as a white racial origin. Ledes connects this to Freud’s distance from Zionism, citing Moses and Monotheism to show Freud defending universality over racial identity.
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