This article clearly demonstrates Freud's rationalistic approach to art: he is not inclined to deeply experience a work of art without knowing what causes such an experience. About “Moses...” Freud wrote: “I treat this work like a beloved child. During three solitary weeks in September 1913, I stood daily in church in front of the statue, studying it, measuring it, sketching it, until I reached the understanding that I dared to express in the article, however, only anonymously. Only much later did I legitimize this non-psychoanalytic child.” Before Freud, most critics believed that Moses' posture was due to his intention to jump up and attack the worshipers of the golden calf. Freud claims that Moses mastered his anger and sat down again so as not to break the tablets of the Testament. Some biographers note the connection between the image of Moses and Freud's worries about the fate of the psychoanalytic movement, which was threatened by a split. Like Moses, Freud tends toward restraint.