Abstract
In his transitional work, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud tries to investigate the traumatic neurosis from an individual and ontogenetical point of view and finds out that it manifests itself in the various distorted forms, for example, nightmares, hallucinations, dissociations, etc. of the repressed unconscious by the compulsion to repetition of death drive. In his last work, Moses and Monotheism, Freud delves into the origin and development of the monotheism of Judaism from a collective and phylogenetical point of view and asserts that the collective trauma of Jewish people by the murder of an Egyptian Moses, a Jewish displacement of primordial parricide, was sublimated to the worship of Jahve God and the establishment of Judaic law. Looking into two major works on trauma of Freud intensively, this article draws out the crucial leitmotifs of trauma theory such as the compulsion to repeat of the repressed unconscious and its displacement and sublimation through symptoms in the individual and religious enactments in the community.
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