Figurine of the Goddess Isis Feeding her Son Horus,
from Sigmund Freud’s Private Collection
Egypt, 664-525 BCE
Bronze
Courtesy of the Freud Museum, London, UK
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The figurine is from the personal collection of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) the father of psychoanalysis. Freud was an archaeology enthusiast and owned over two thousand artifacts, most of which he kept in his study. he took a keen interest in Egyptian culture and religion and their influence on Judaism and monotheism. Shortly before his death, he published a book entitled Moses and Monotheism, in which he maintained that Moses was an Egyptian nobleman and a follower of Pharaoh Akhenaten. According to the book, Moses was murdered by the Israelites in a metaphoric act of patricide, after which he was reincarnated in the image of Moses, the political legislator.
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