Word: akhnaton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rambling, chatty discourse on everything from man's place in the universe to the fear of losing love, and Moses and Monotheism. Freud was convinced that Moses was no Jew, but a highborn Egyptian who chose the Jews (hence "the chosen people") as the instrument for perpetuating Akhnaton's monotheism, which had just been swept out of Egypt in a religious counterrevolution. Freud, who regarded religion as a "universal obsessional neurosis," was at pains to explain the acceptance of Moses and of his one God in terms of the "father figure." Comments Author Jones: "Freud had always asserted...
...Nile, victim of a palace plot against his mother. Rescued by a childless couple, he is raised as their son, learns the healing arts of his stepfather, a physician. Coming of age, Sinuhe meets a young soldier (Victor Mature), and together they save the life of the new Pharaoh Akhnaton (Michael Wilding) when he is attacked by a lion in the desert...
...Akhnaton's reform died with him because the next pharaoh, Tutankhamen ("King Tut"), preferred flattery. The statues done of him have what Drioton calls "a delicate prettiness with sometimes a touch of romantic melancholy." Since the gods were customarily carved to resemble the reigning monarch, sculptors had to make them beautiful and blue, too. It got so that animals were the only subjects artists could treat freely...
Distended Stomach. Moreover, there were innovators such as King Akhnaton, who came to the throne about 1370 B.C. He demanded that his trembling sculptors carve him as he really looked: "Elongated head, gaunt face, slender limbs, distended stomach-no detail of this kind was spared ... On the contrary everything that was wrong from that aesthetic point of view was exaggerated, just like those modern works which strike the imagination while shocking established opinion...