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Freud's account of monotheism, particularly in Moses and Monotheism, ignores the dependent, loving side of the oedipus complex, the love of God connected to the Father's love. Feeling that the prohibition against making images of the Father God reflects the concern over closing the eyes, as in the dream of his dead father, the unthought of Freud perhaps was the wish not to see or imagine his father's naked body. Freud also seems not to have been able to make the connection between the prohibition on images and scopophilia, the sexual pleasure in looking.