Maimonides' Guide of The Perplexed,— the twelfth century final work by this neo-Aristotilian rabbi and physician— parallels Freud's model of dream work and interpretative techniques. Specifically, the literary structure of the Torah and Guide is similar to Freud's account of the structure of the Unconscious (and Preconscious/Conscious secondary revision) in dream work—how the Unconscious works to both reveal and conceal, using distortions, symbols, metaphors to hide and inform the dreamer and analyst about internal, hidden conflicts. This facilitates a hermeneutic approach. I recount the Maimonides' methods in writing the Guide, which reveals the secrets of the Torah, yet also conceals them from “ordinary” readers, specifically rabbis, who would have excommunicated him. Freud attributed many of his ideas about mental life to mostly nineteenth century writers . Yet, other researchers have shown precursors of Freud's ideas in Dante (a model for transference and working through (Author, XXXX)); Rousseau's Confessions, the first autobiography, as a model for how early development helps form later life (Author, XXXX); and the Biblical Joseph story, the first known description of the Ego Ideal (Author, XXXX). This paper reaches back to the Medieval period to find an precursor to Unconscious/Preconscious dream work.