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Explores the unacknowledged psychological element in Maimonides' work, one which prefigures the latter insights of Freud.

Bakan challenges the view of Freud that he was a secular, rationally and scientifically-orientated intellectual, educated in modern culture and with only a modicum of formal Jewish education. He argues that Freud was influenced in his major and revolutionary life work by a mystical tradition.