An ambitious attempt to depict 'a complete mental chart of civilized man' in terms of the imagined psycho-analysis of one of literature's most dramatic legendary figures—the Wandering Jew. His recollections, elicited under hypnosis, retell the story of the last two thousand years and comprise 'an erotic interpretation of history'. The authors of this book can rightly say: 'Technically … the recital of his tale presents almost insurmountable difficulties', for, in venturing to relate the experiences of their hero, they are confronted with the perplexing task of unfolding before the reader's eyes a panorama that would adequately portray the pageantry of twenty centuries. The problem is further complicated by the fact that the adventures of the eternal wanderer, and hence the historic pattern that forms their background, are represented as dominated by the sway of