INTERNATIONAL PSYCHO‑ANALYTICAL ASSOCIATION

«IP0,0»                                  5 April 193O  London W1

Dear Professor,

«IP4,0»I would have written earlier to thank you for your very interesting and welcome letter of a month or so ago but for my painful illness.  As it is, this will serve as a birthday letter to you, for you know I have the practice of not burdening your budget on the day itself, though I shall certainly think of you when that day comes round.  I hope you will receive the expected help from your coming visit to Berlin and that it will be even greater than before.

I have just finished going through the translation of "«MDUL»Das Unbehagen«MDNM»" and enjoyed the book more than ever.  Mrs. Riviere found a good deal of difficulty in the second part of it, which therefore is not so fluently done as the first part, but you may be sure that at least the accuracy can be guaranteed.

«MDUL»A propos«MDNM» of the book, the editors of an encyclopaedic work entitled "«MDUL»Sex in Civilization«MDNM»" will no longer be able to write, as they did, of your work: "Despite the magnificent sweep of this entire approach, and the brave adventurousness embodied in its challenge, it has seldom, in a deep sense, risen beyond the pathology of the individual".«FN1.××V. F. Calverton and S. D. Schmalhausen, eds., «MDUL»Sex in Civilzation«MDNM», intro. Havelock Ellis (New York: MacCaulay, 1929).  The quoted passage is from the editors' preface (p. 8).»

By the way, are you familiar with Edward Carpenter's "«MDUL»Civilisation, its Cause and Cure«MDNM»"?«FN1.××Edward Carpenter, «MDUL»Civilisation, its Cause and Cure, and other essays«MDNM» (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1921).

»  I enclose a couple of quotations on the subject of dreams from a book called "«MDUL»The Terrors of the Night«MDNM»" written by Thomas Nashe in 1594.«FN1.××Nashe (1594).»

I got this week a very human document from a man who has just emerged from a convict prison in England.  It might be entitled "Psycho‑Analysis under Difficulties".  One of the other persons was an amateur analyst who worked through the material of dreams, free association, etc. which my correspondent wrote in his cell the night before.  Ultimately the matter was discovered and the authorities were so puzzled with the meaningless flow of associations that they were inclined to call in a doctor to inquire into the man's mental condition when, to their relief, they detected a number of obscene words scattered through the material and so decided that he was not insane but wicked.  He had to pass several days on bread and water as expiation for this scientific adventure.

A Japanese by the name of Yabe,«FN1.××Y. K. Yabe founded the Japanese Psychoanalytic Society in Tokyo.

» of whom you may have heard, has founded a very promising Society in Japan and has been entrusted by the Japanese Government with the mission of spending two or three months in Europe investigating generally the subject of psycho‑analysis.  He has been working with Glover and myself privately in London and I find him an exceptionally intelligent and well‑informed man, most trustworthy in every way.  His attitude is throughout sound and understanding and he has an astonishing knowledge of the work.  He proposes on his return to Japan to send us two or three of the younger members to go through the thorough training.  He himself is Psychologist to the Government Railways of Japan, having resigned a University position there in Experimental Psychology.  He speaks English fairly well, but has not much German or French.  He is, of course, very eager to meet you on his return and I wish to commend him strongly to you.  He will probably be in Berlin when you are there, otherwise he had of course, planned to go to Vienna.

Strachey read a very excellent and original paper recently on the "Psycho‑Analysis of Reading".«FN1.××Strachey (1930).

»  Altogether he is proving distinctly the best of the three helpers you sent me some ten years ago.

Now I have given you all the news except that I have reserved the best to the end, namely that my wife expects the appearance of a baby towards the end of this month.

With my kindest regards to yourself and your family, I am,  Yours always affectionately,  Ernest Jones