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A SHORT STUDY OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF MOHAMMED hence for Mohammed there was strictly speaking a "grandfather-", rather than a "father-complex".

As with Amenhotep, so with Mohammed; in neither did the aggressire impulses find expression in any active hostility against the objects of their jealous dislike. In both men the impulses underwent immensities of sublimation, so that both sought and found a solution to their respective conflicts in waging a life-long war on the traditions, religious, political and social, of their people.

Doubtless the aggressive impulses (against the father) of Amenhotep underwent a far greater degree of sublimation than those of Mohammed, so that his character became in the end more essentially to resemble that of Jesus of Nazareth than that of the founder