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The author discusses Freud's last "psychoanalytic novel," Moses and Monotheism. She notes that there are striking absences in the text: Freud did not mention Karl Abraham's paper on violence and the rejection of the father in the story of Akhnaton. Similarly, the death instinct and maternal-feminine themes were neglected. Barande reviews the biographical situation of Freud at the age of eighty-one. He had just exceeded his father's life span and had established himself in England. In the study of Moses, Freud wrote of a nostalgia for the "great man" of childhood, and to some degree reinstituted the great man theme in the story of Moses, with its emphasis on doubling. He also began to voice a version of phylogenetic themes he had earlier rejected in Jung. Barande uses stylistic studies, especially of key words, to establish a picture of Freud's psychological development and to account for the changes in Freud and the lacunae in Moses and Monotheism. She links this to some larger themes concerning Freud's failure to reformulate his earlier work following his theoretical innovations of 1920.