ABSTRACT
The claim of the family of Sigmund Freud and biographers, and even of Freud himself, that he was brought up in an assimilated Jewish home that was almost completely devoid of religious content has been brought into serious doubt. Freud goes one step further by hypothesizing the duality of Moses, that is, the existence of two separate, unrelated, and sequential leaders named Moses. Though no evidence that would in any way corroborate the murder of Moses was found in the writings of Origen, there is material that testifies to Freud’s intuitive genius, specifically in terms of the relationship of the duality of Moses, animal sacrifice, and Jesus. Freud’s almost exclusive focus on the role of the father in the etiology of the oedipal conflict and its effect on the development of personality is quite evident.
