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Strachey, James. Preliminary Notes upon the Problem of Akhenaten.
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If Moses was an Egyptian.—See Psychoanal. Rev., Vol. 27, July, page 337, 1940.
Strachey, James.Preliminary Notes upon the Problem of Akhenaten.—Strachey reconsiders the problem of Akhenaten in the light of advances in our knowledge since Abraham wrote upon the same subject ( Imago, Band 1, 1912; see Psychoanal. Rev., Volume 2, page 220) and offers a hypothesis: Akhenaten appears to have been born with an unusually large feminine component in his constitution. For reasons of which we know nothing, he reacted to this along a line which, in an ordinary man living today, we should describe as paranoid. Since, however, he was in fact the King of Egypt, he was not regarded by his contemporaries as mad and was not shut up in a lunatic asylum. Instead of this he founded a monotheistic religion and succeeded in imposing it upon his subjects. If this is so, it seems possible that the accident that a person of this peculiar type of mind was also the most powerful individual in the world may have been responsible for the first emergence of monotheism in the history of the human race.