The father of Psychiatry, Sigmund Freud, looked into thought processes and words to find a world that could be explanatory and frightening at the same time.  He also could be quite provocative and offended most thinking people because he insisted that sex and one’s relationship with oedipal figures explained a lot about human behavior.  I haven’t read it yet, but he wrote his last work on Moses and suggested that he was not Jewish.  This explained very little about Moses and God except for Freud bringing up Moses’ certain Egyptian education and knowledge of Akhenaton and the worship of one god, the solar disk.

I know little about the ego and the id except for the fact that if I close my eyes and shut off my hearing aids I could swear that the world I knew deep down was there expressly for me. But Moses had a relationship with God that certainly was unique if the Bible is to be believed.  He was the only human to see and speak directly to God and came back from this shattering experience (in the movie version his head and facial hair became white) with tablets of stone bearing the Ten Commandments.  Of course the height of drama is that the waiting masses at the bottom of Sinai were deciding to create a god in the form of a golden calf.  They were allowed to do this by Aaron who knew better and eventually headed a tribe of Priests that were to clash with the people who later on were ruled by the Priests’ dictates on how to interpret the word of God.  Moses, the hero, gives this scene a look and destroys God’s words and walks back up the mountain in a huff.

Freud, the Atheist, was fascinated by the Moses story and muddied the waters by bringing up the fact that he was an alien to the slaves he was to lead.  In many ways this suggests deeper meanings of the persona of a man who lived to be 120 and whose God punished him by not permitting him to go into the Promised Land - but taunted him by allowing him to look into it.  As Freud pointed out, there were a lot of things going on simultaneously and relationships were intertwined both consciously and subconsciously.  But, knowing nothing about any of this, I will conclude with the following:

We Jews read the five books of MOSES each year.  The books are broken down into weekly portions and the study has been continuous since their oral days and canonization a couple of hundred years before the appearance of Jesus.  Now, that would be a perfect study for Freud.  The magical transformation of a prince of Egypt who was denied eternal rest in what was to become Israel and Jesus, son of a carpenter and whose mother was a virgin (only God could get around this one) whose place of crucifixion and interment was decided by the wife of Constantine in Israel.  Freud, the Atheist escaping from the Nazis, could have a field day with this.