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In the après-coup of a trauma that occurred while the young Jean-Claude was in exile with his family in Uruguay, the author, as an adult and a psychoanalyst, now looks back and asks: ‘And what if Freud were wrong?’ At age 8 or 9 years, on Easter Day in Montevideo, as he waits for the friends he plays football with every day, it is another game altogether that is about to unfold. In all good faith, his young fellow pupils brutally make him aware that, like Freud, since “my parents were Jews … I have remained a Jew myself” (Freud, 1925, p. 7). He is therefore accused of complicity in a deicide and forcibly dragged to Church to be ‘cleansed of this crime’. Stoloff remembers having sensed the vital importance of resisting this aggression. Brought up in a secular family that was able to flee France and the persecutions inflicted on Jews, the author emphasizes from the outset the plurality of Judaisms. For him, the religious element is just one of many factors that define him in the Western imagination and he gives an account of his past experience through the filter of his own analytic process.