Freud on Moses, the father and guilt:
'They deserved
nothing better than to be punished by Him,
because they did not observe the laws; the need
for satisfying this feeling of guilt, which coming
from a much deeper source was insatiable, made
them render their religious precepts ever and ever
more strict, more exacting, but also more petty.
In a new transport of moral asceticism the Jews
imposed on themselves constantly increasing
instinctual renunciation, and thereby reached
at least in doctrine and precepts ethical heights
that had remained inaccessible to the other
peoples of antiquity. Many Jews regard these
aspirations as the second main characteristic, and
the second great achievement, of their religion.
Our investigation is intended to show how it is
connected with the first one, the conception of
the one and only God. The origin, however, of
this ethics in feelings of guilt, due to the repressed
hostility to God, cannot be gainsaid.'
Translation:Katherine Jones.
One of the great insights of Freud is that the dead father is more alive and more repressive than the living father.
The hostility towards God is not an exception, it's the rule. He needs hostility in order to be God. He cannot survive on a diet of love.