In this article, the author draws on three texts by Sigmund Freud: one on the Moses of Michelangelo, another on a disturbance of memory on the Acropolis, and the third devoted to the case of Dora. In each of these texts, he analyzes respectively: an error, a denial, and a failure; and he brings these three missteps together under the banner of a question about transmission: why did Freud not make transmission a theme in its own right, given that psychoanalysis is based on the transmission of memory traces from the past? He suggests that this may be due to Freud's struggles with the transmission of the Jewish part of his identity, a part that he wanted to cover up, even repress, with a purely universal discourse. Again, this is all the more curious given that psychoanalysis only highlights the universal through singular cases.