ABSTRACT
The Protestant Akhenaten created by James Henry Breasted and Arthur Weigall manifested himself in the writings both of the psychoanalysts and of their Fascist opponents in ways that the well-intentioned Egyptologists might never have imagined. This chapter reviews depth at Breasted and Weigall, and what their interpretations of Akhenaten offered Freud and the Fascists. Breasted and Weigall in particular write about Akhenaten in terms of religious and political struggles that could be seen as parallels for ones then going on in Europe especially because they represent Akhenaten as a thoroughly European individual. Freuds desire to bring Akhenaten into his life extended to his collection of antiquities. Among Freuds Dmitri Sergeyevitch Merezhkovsky collection was a copy of his novel about Akhenaten, first published in Russian in 1924 and translated into German as Der Messias. Looking at Freuds primary sources for Moses and Monotheism and the ways he read them seems to confirm Richard Bernstein's persuasive reading of the work.
