By the Strong Light of the Canonical

 It was Harold Bloom who discerned in Freud a "profound Jewishness" which he identified as Freud's "consuming passion for interpretation, a passion that led him into the wilderness of his frontier concepts."

If a consuming passion for interpretation is what makes for a "profound Jewishness," then few among us have been more "Jewish" than Nietzsche!

Bloom continued: 

"The psychical representative of the drive not in the individual consciousness but in human history, allegorically or ironically considered, is the image of a wandering exile, propelled onward in time by all the vicissitudes of injustice and outwardness"--as opposed to the "inwardness" of the compulsive hermeneut--"all the bodily oppressiveness that is inflicted upon the representatives of interpretation itself"--the Freuds, the Nietzsches, the Spinozas, yes, but also the countless wearers of the suf--as they make their way along the frontiers between mind and body, known and unknown, past and future, illuminated only flickeringly by the strong light of the canonical, as our ancestors learned to call it, the light of the perfection that destroys" (Ruin the Sacred Truths, 166).