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ABSTRACT Considerations of hermeneutics, the ideas and beliefs that ground the interpretative process, reflect both personal and cultural influences. This paper discusses the implicit bias reflected in the construction of a “hermeneutics of suspicion” and a “hermeneutics of trust.” Considering this binary from the position of the “invisible other,” in this case the Jewish analyst, this paper identifies the implicit “othering” that reinforces the experience of invisibility, takes up the possibility of reframing the hermeneutic binary as a “hermeneutics of sameness” and a “hermeneutics of difference,” and discusses clinical implications of such a shift.