l7 October 1911  4O7 Brunswick Avenue  Toronto

Dear Professor Freud,

«IP4,0»Well, I am safely home again, after a most inspiriting holiday.  I am glad to say I found my wife distinctly better.  Adolf Meyer had done her much good by talking to her very reasonably about my work.  I broached the subject of treatment to her, and in the joyful mood at my return she was surprisingly optimistic.  Your opinion that there was a chance for her to get better carried very great weight, for she could hardly help living with me and not thinking highly of you.  She said she would do anything, so long as she wasn't expected to believe things she couldn't believe, (i.e. have ideas forced on her against her will).  Rather to my surprise she was very definite on the point that she would rather be treated by you than by anyone else, but I told her that very (un)likely«FN1.××The brackets here appear to have been inserted at a later re‑reading to indicate the error.» that would be impossible but that you would judge best.

I shall never forget the kind way you talked to me in Weimar, and am more grateful than I can say.  I went away that night overjoyed at the thought that she might get better.  To be honest, however, I must say that on the following day I had a disagreeable dream, which after a difficult analysis showed the wish that she might die instead of getting better.  I felt greatly relieved after having it out with myself and ever since have been freer and happier than for years.

We have not talked over details yet, but I will let you know the arrangements when they are made.  She seems to assume that she will stay the winter here, and so soon after coming together again I didn't like to suggest her leaving, but no doubt it would be better for her to go in a couple of months' time.

I have no other special news.  This year I have much less routine work than before (hospital, etc.) and can devote myself to practice and writing.  I have just started with five new patients, an alcoholic, two pseudo‑epilepsies, a conversion hysteria and an anxiety‑ hysteria.

My copy of the «MDUL»Jahrbuch«MDNM» has not yet arrived, which is disappointing.  Fortunately, however, I had a reprint of the Schreber analysis, which was a great illumination.  The relation of paranoia, paranoid dementia, and dementia praecox to homosexuality, narcissism, and auto‑eroticism is an enormous clarification and simplification.«FN1.××Freud (1911c).

»  Was there ever a new science that progressed at such a pace?  I suppose, though, that you, looking back, think of the slowness of the beginning.

I have just read Rank's Lohengrin saga«FN1.×× Rank (1911).

» with great enjoyment.  It seems to me to have too much material in it, if anything, but it is very beautiful.

I cannot tell you what a pleasure the congress was to me.  Everything was so inspiring and resolute.  I used the time of my holiday well in talking ‑‑ in Munich with Seif, «FN1.××Leonhard Seif (b. 1866), neuropathologist practising in Munich, head of Munich branch of International Psychoanalytic Association, a good friend of Jones before the war, later turned to Adlerian individual psychology.

» in Berlin with Abraham, and in New York with Brill.  Only those of us who are isolated know what a delight it is to meet again men in the same work.

The Congress in Munich«FN1.××Annual meeting of the International Society for Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 25‑26 Munich September 1911.  For agenda, see «MDUL»Journal für Psychologie und Neurologie«MDNM», 18(1912):478.

» was unutterably stupid and tedious except for a few jokes that enlivened the discussions.  Tromner last year read a paper on sleep,«FN1.××Trömner (1911).

» and Seif said he would give him one piece of advice ‑‑ to read the «MDUL»Traumdeutung«MDNM».  This year he read a silly paper on dreams, and frequently quoted the «MDUL»Traumdeu­tung«MDNM».«FN1.××Ernst Trömner, "Enstehung und Bedeutung der Träume," (Read at the annual meeting of the International Society for Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Munich, 25‑26 September 1911), «MDUL»Journal für Psychologie und Neurologie«MDNM», 19(1912):343‑355.

»  Seif said he was glad to find he had taken his advice about reading the «MDUL»Traumdeutung«MDNM» and that he would now give him another piece ‑‑ to read it again.  Vogt,«FN1.××Oskar Vogt (1870‑1959), German neuropathologist, concerned primarily with pathological anatomy of the brain, but also advocated a form of psychotherapy called "causal analysis."» who was President, made a beautiful Versprechen.  He is exceedingly tyrannical and bullies everyone.  In the discussion on hypnosis I angered him by defending Ferenczi's view re the parents, and he replied ‑‑ red in the face ‑‑ in words to this effect: "Es ist ein Unsinn zu behaupten, dass, z. B., meine Kraft Patienten zu hypnotisieren in «MDUL»meinem«MDNM» Vaterkomplex liegt. ‑‑ natürlich wollte ich sagen, in ihrem Vaterkomplex".«FN1.××"I maintain that it is an absurdity that my power to hypnotize patients lies in «MDUL»my«MDNM» father complex ‑‑ naturally, I wanted to say in «MDUL»their«MDNM» father complex."

»  Seif and I explained the meaning of the Versprechen for the benefit of the audience.  If they meet often enough they will learn some |×/×by practical experience.  Inspite of my unorthodoxy they put me on the committee this time, to represent America.

I wanted to ask you about the translation of the manuscript I left with you.  Rank tells me that Sachs will translate the Salt article, but what about the nightmare one?«FN1.××Jones (1912h, 1912j).

»  I do not know if Rank has the time, as he has his examination to do, but if so (which would be a great pleasure to me to have such a competent translator) I should like to pay him suitably for the trouble.  Will you perhaps let me know about this, or arrange it; I have no idea what Deuticke pays for the «MDUL»Schriften«MDNM».  I am of course very eager to hear your opinion of the manuscript when you have time to read it over.  By the way, did you get a reprint on the Pathology of Morbid Anxiety,«FN1.××Jones (1911e).

» which I sent when you were at Carlsbad?  In writing it I was very shaky on the delicate question of mind and body, and should be very much obliged to you for any criticisms of it you feel inclined to make at your leisure.

With my warmest Regards  yours affectionately  Ernest Jones.