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The publication of the Freud-Jung correspondence opens a vast field for research, according to the author. Her discussion begins with a comment of William McGuire's, in his introduction to the volume of letters, that both Freud and Jung took something precious for their work from the rupture of their relationship. Miller focuses on Jung's father complex, which underlay the relationship between the two men. She notes Jung's jealousy of the preference Freud showed at times for Ferenczi and Abraham. She cites the letter in which Jung confesses that as a small boy he had been subjected to a homosexual attempt by a man whom he had previously venerated. Miller analyzes several dreams reported by Jung from various times in his life. In his autobiography, Jung even included a dream from his childhood which he did not tell until his sixty-fifth year—in 1940, just after Freud's death. Miller discusses the complexities of their relationship and makes suggestions concerning the unconscious motivation of Jung's rejection of some of Freud's ideas and eventually of Freud himself.