Here the author has sought to contribute a fresh approach to salient themes in the Freudian texts that could be regarded as the underpinnings of Freud's idiosyncratic attitude toward religious feeling and, ultimately, of his own problematic identification with Moses. Working with an impressive array of citations from Freuds' papers, Ater argues that Freud's complex religious identification as well as his scientific outlook – particularly as regards to the deepest strata of the unconscious, group psychology, and the genesis of religion – share a single psychological structure.