Moses and MonotheismMoses and Monotheism is the last book ever written by Sigmund Freud. In 1939, the year Sigmund Freud died in London, the book was published. It was in London that he settled with his family so that they could escape Nazi harassment against the Jews of Austria; this is the area in which Freud felt safe. Sigmund Freud was Jewish and opposed anti-Semitism. Freud was denied promotions because of his religion. Freud's anti-Semitic generation of that time would not be interested in his ideas. Discrimination was out of control in the late 1920s, when Sigmund Freud wrote briefly about how Jews were treated. He couldn't understand why, given that Jesus was also Jewish. Freud's men had given the human race one of its greatest gifts, an idol like Jesus Christ. Sigmund Freud thought about this and began to wonder why Jews were so hated. Freud decided to examine the history and origin of his people, and he tried to connect with Moses, the heroic Jewish leader who had led his people out of oppression in Egypt. Sigmund Freud's thoughts on these issues are what gave rise to the book Moses. and monotheism in the light. The first part of the book is called Moses an Egyptian. “To deny a people the man it praises as the greatest of its sons is not an act which can be undertaken lightly, especially by someone belonging to that people” (Sigmund Freud, 1939, p 3). It was said that Moses was hidden in a basket and thrown into the Nile to be saved from the murder of all the Jewish firstborns, and that he was saved by an Egyptian princess and raised as her son. However, Moses is an Egyptian name, and Freud wondered about this. He wondered if Moses was really Egyptian, and I... middle of paper ...... passed on his beliefs to him from priests who had devoted their lives to the worship of Aten. Freud also responded to the precise historical conclusions which placed the origin of the Jewish religion in the cult of Jahve, a volcanic god mastered by another Moses, of Midian origin, supposing the combination of two religions; The religion of truth and justice of Aten, temporarily withdrawn by the religion of Jahweh, more focused on conquest. While learning about the history of the Jews, Freud redistributes the dualist system that was so dear to his heart; the union of two Moses of different origins into one nature, also of two new religions (faith) into a monotheistic religion and of two different people into one nation. The third part is called Moses, his people and the monotheistic religion. This part of the book consists of preliminary notes written by Freud..