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The author accidentally discovered in his files a letter written by Jung to Hans Illing in 1955. In it, Jung claimed that the Jews have a "characteristic psychology" and suffer from a "chosen people complex"; that Freud was above the law he prescribed for everyone else (e.g., personal analysis) and so was Yahweh the Jewish God. Lastly, Jung once again cleared the record on his former minor entanglements with Nazism by calling it a case of "a man who does his best, falls into his worst." He referred Illing to his book,Answer to Job. Slochower turns to the Answer to find one for himself about Jung. His major argument is that Jung dealt with his pained relation to Freud by mapping it onto Job's dealing with Yahweh. What follows is a scholarly mastering of the evidence from numerous sources. Much hinges on the October 28, 1907, entry from the Freud/Jung letters, in which Jung confessed to a "religious crush" on Freud and disclosed for the first time that he had been