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Dr Dreifuss is a member of the Association of Graduate Analytical Psychologists of the C. G. Jung Institute, Zürich, who emigrated to Israel in 1959. This collection comprises twenty-one papers published in various places in one of three languages, so some have been translated. Seven were published in this Journal, with the addition of comments.
The subjects have been arranged into four categories: (1) psychotherapeutic practice; (2) psychotherapy of holocaust victims; (3) on the archetype of sacrifice; (4) on Jewish psychology. The theme of sacrifice permeates all of them.
Whenever we write we are subject to our training and to our personal experience. For a reviewer, a feeling for the authentic self of the writer may reveal that approximation to the truth we call insight, though it can only show the points at which the two personal realities merge. I have known Dreifuss through the years and believe his position is authentic according to his lights. For me, those lights shine most brightly in his work with holocaust victims. With them, he recognises that the projection of the shadow is the greatest problem and he works with it while feeling the patient's wounds; for the countertransference and the transference are particularly relevant to this Jewish analyst.
The archetype of sacrifice is an area in which the Jews have potent symbols. This section starts with an historical study of circumcision, followed by that of legends of the sacrificial lamb in which Isaac-Christ parallels and differences are discussed. In particular, Dreifuss writes of the blowing of the ram's horn, representing the sacrifice of the primitive in man for the sake of his relationship with the self. There is