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In the context of psychoanalytic culture, the transgenerational transmission of trauma that marks Jewish experience is accompanied by a transgenerational transmission of privilege that inheres from the history and process of psychoanalysis itself. While all members of dialogues addressing racial reckoning are confronted simultaneously with multiple self-other configurations that may be consciously in conflict with each other and/or unconscious and dissociated, my sense that this seemingly discordant coupling of privilege and trauma with regard to Jewish experience generally remains unspoken, is sometimes disavowed, and often results in confusing interactions that stem from split off affect states. Analogous to the analytic situation, the aim of this article is to engage these dissociated, disavowed and/or conflicted parts, such that they become accessible not just to Jewish participants, but to all participants, thereby deepening mutual understanding and expanding self-awareness.