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35 Things Most People Don’t Know About Sigmund Freud

Trista March 23, 2019 17 min

Sigmund Freud - The Interpretation of Dreams

9. The Oedipus Complex Also Explained Religion

Sigmund Freud believed Moses was paradigmatic of the Oedipus complex like this painting known as The Finding of Moses by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema in 1904. Lawrence Alma-Tadema/ Artrenewal.org/ Wikimedia Commons/ Public Domain.

Believe it or not, Freud was so convinced that his Oedipus complex explained every aspect of the world that he even applied it to the study of religion. He was a nonpracticing Jew himself and developed the idea that his own son killed Moses in the Hebrew Bible (Torah) as killed by his people, just like Oedipus’ father. He elaborated this theory in his book Totem and Taboo.

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9. The Oedipus Complex Also Explained Religion

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