Moses and Civilization: The Meaning Behind Freuds Myth - Paperbackby Robert A. Paul (Author) Freud's major cultural books, Totem and Taboo and Moses and Monotheism, have long been viewed as failed attempts at historical reconstruction. This book, by an anthropologist and practicing psychoanalyst, offers a brilliant reinterpretation of these works, presenting them instead as versions and unwitting analyses of the great mythic narrative underlying Judeo Christian civilization, found principally in the Five Books of