Fenichel and others have stressed that the anti-Semite is one who hates and despises the projected image of one's own unconscious impulses and drives; his ambivalence is revealed by his envy. Patients seeking a Jewish analyst apparently do so out of the belief that Jews are closer to the secrets of childhood than are others and that Jews are 'the only living people who are within reach of unlimited satisfaction of all infantile drives' through the promised (lost) land of milk and honey. The attitudes of three analyzed patients toward Jews was determined by two different stages in their relationships to their mothers. The conscious picture of the Jew as liberated and independent, with the strength to stand up against a hostile world, is an expression of the desire to be liberated from mother. At a deeper level, the Jew's promised return to his paradise and his closeness to his God represent the lost paradise of childhood and the longing