25 April 1913  321 Jarvis St  Toronto

Dear Professor Freud,

Your much looked‑for letter came this morning, and although it could not tell me all the many details I wanted to know it was welcome news to hear that my wife was still going on so well, and has lowered the morphia to such a minimal quantity where it can serve little else than symbolically (I shall be anxious, however, until it all goes, for it is such an easy thing to raise the dose on any occasion when life is hard to face).  You said little about her attitude to me, but between the lines I gather than [that] you are hopeful of a reconciliation, which is what I most want.  I have become a little freer and better analysed in my attitude and feeling towards her.  I owe her and shall give her manfully a very hearty and honest apology, but I have much less tendency to abase myself before her as previously, and after all no woman can altogether demand this in her heart from a man, in spite of friend Adler.^[1]

I wrote an account of the Baltimore meeting^[2] to Rank and to my wife, which no doubt will reach you, so I need say no more about this.  I am deeply impressed by the success of Jung's campaign, for he appeals to formidable prejudices.  It is, in my opinion, the most critical period that |×/ will ever have to go through, and we formed the committee not at all too early; there is much to discuss about devising proper measures to meet his propagandism, and I am eagerly looking forward to coming to Vienna, if for this reason alone.  I have written a strong protest to Jung at his treatment of me, but in such a form that it need not lead to an open rupture, which I am not eager to provoke.  If I had written earlier it would have been much angrier.  Still I do not expect he will answer me, for his recent conduct in America makes me think more than ever that he does not react like a normal man, and that he is mentally deranged to a serious extent; he produced quite a paranoic impression on some of the ψα psychiatrists in Ward's Island.

I am impatient to read your promised Totemism essay, which I hear is to appear in the June number of Imago.^[3]  We shall see if Maeder will still think you have "kein Verständnis" [no sympathy] for religious problems!  I enjoyed enormously Ferenczi's last essay in the Zeitschrift,^[4] his last work, I think.  He has much of your intellectual courage for facing the last conclusions of a train of thought, such a rare gift with scientific men who are generally obsessed by the fear of "going too far".

There may be four new local Vereine to add to the International next autumn, but it is quality not quantity that we need more of.  I do so want to talk with you about many things, that it is difficult to wait ‑‑ though now it is less than four weeks.  My thoughts are occupied by the |×/ movement, and I am full of schemes.  It is a grand time to be alive in, better than any other period in history because it is fuller of fighting on which much depends.

Yours enthusiastically  Jones.

^[1]           Otto Adler, Die mangelhafte Geschlechtsempfindung des Weibes, Anesthesia sexualis feminarum, Dyspareunia, Anaphrodisia (Berlin: Kornfeld, 1904; rev. ed. 1911).  This book is mentioned in Jones (1918c) with regard to statistics on "sexual anaesthesia in women," and Adler is referred to as "one of the most experienced observers" on the subject, see Jones, Papers, 2nd ed., p. 557.

^[2]           Jones had attended the opening ceremony of the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, Baltimore, Maryland, 18 April 1913.

^[3]           Part IV of Freud (1912‑13).

^[4]           Ferenczi (1913).