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Freud's Moses, according to the author, was a product of a wish to consider Moses an Egyptian. Freud 'obviously resented the fact that Moses was a Jew.
'Freud's book on Moses represents an unconscious attempt on his part to resolve his own religio-racial conflict, an attempt to rationalize his rejection of religion and to compensate his feeling of racial inferiority… Freud's unconscious ultimate aim was to establish the point: "If Moses, my prototype, was not a Jew, then neither am I one".'
The author offers her interpretation of Freud's scientific attempt as a simple statement, without even trying to prove her point. Her obvious intention is to defend the indisputable truth in the stories of the Bible.
This paper shows the danger which lies in the use of 'wild psychoanalysis' as a weapon against a scientific opponent.