Oedipal crime as prototype of all law breaking
Book referenced:
Title: Sigmund Freud and the Jewish mystical tradition
Author: Bakan, David.
Regarding Freud >
(a) “(…) he attempted to rewrite the Law of Moses in a way which would be more compatible with the prevailing spirit of liberty” P. 167
(b) “He was trying to remake and rework our conceptions of morality in a way which would make it possible for the individual to live a richer and less hampered existence, freed from the taboos which Judaism had imposed upon itself for its survival and which had been accepted by the Christian world as a way of life.” P. 167
(c) Guilt associated with the Oedipal crime. Moses Egyptian – absolves himself