This study traces Freud’s engagement with the figure of Moses from the early twentieth-century debates that shaped his thinking through the late writings of 1939. It examines how Moses becomes a figure through which Freud explores authority, inheritance, belief, and the psychic weight of tradition. The book connects psychoanalytic interpretation with questions of Jewish identity and textual transmission, showing how Freud’s reading of Moses reflects broader tensions between memory and the construction of theory. Written for readers interested in psychoanalysis and Jewish studies, it offers a focused scholarly reading of a crucial episode in Freud’s late work. Its concise format suggests a concentrated academic inquiry rather than a broad biography, emphasizing interpretation and the afterlife of Freud’s final religious writings.

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