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Reviewing Slochower's paper1 on Jung's Answer to Job, Goldberg reminds us that interpretation is of the mind of the interpreter. In the Jungian view, the answer to Job is an exploration of transpersonal truths. When Jung dreams of a phallus in a temple, it is "the generative energy of the collective unconscious." Similarly, Job and Yahweh, Freud and Jung, explore the mythic boundaries of Father in relation to Son. Goldberg emphasizes that in his view what blocks a person is not conflict, but a stagnating set of premises. "Working through" is realizing new premises, i.e., that the son can seek himself, that God may have to be recreated by every individual, etc. His arguments have a cogent coherence except in reference to Jung's letter to Illing. Jung's casual generalizations about the Jews, even if taken as an exploration of collective symbols, bear a strong resemblance to prejudice, which always has its rationale.