Brooklyn Aug 17 '08

My dear Professor

Your letter certainly afforded me 
great pleasure.  I am really 
proud of the confidence which 
you are so kind to place in me.
 I shall endeavor to come up to your 
expectations, and hope to contribute 
my mite towards the propagation 
of your great works in America. 
I can realize your feelings in 
being obliged to rewrite the Hysterie 
Studien unchanged, but there ought 
to be great satisfaction in the knowledge 
that the book is now in demand 
everywhere.  Of course it would be

so much better if it embodied your 
ideas only. Hereafter my chief aim 
will be to spread your ideas.  Almost 
daily I am having discussions with 
colleagues and I am sure it leaves 
some impressions. Naturally, there are 
always some who more out of ignorance 
than anything else can not be convinced. 
I worked up a case from my Burghölzli 
service and sent it to Morton Prince’s 
Journal. He accepted it and wrote me 
a very flattering letter. „It is just the 
kind of work the journal wishes“ he 
remarked. He also asked me to write a 
paper on your works and those of the 
Zürich school, especially desiring me to 
define the „unconscious“ from your 
and Jung’s view points. He justly says 
that your works are only vaguely understood 

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here. I promised to write this article 
which I believe can do no harm. I 
should however like you to please help 
me with that definition of the „unconscious“.  
All I know about your views of the 
unconscious I have from the Traum-
deutung pp. 315-16-17, is that sufficient? 
or is it necessary to be more specific? 
I am working on the selected papers and 
hope to have it ready in the near future. 
For the last few weeks I was somewhat 
distracted from my work, I have been 
looking about for a new residence in 
N.Y. This is not at all easy.  I now rented 
a place not far from the clinic of 
which I shall take possession within a 
few days.  My address will then be 
#100 W. 78^th St. New York City.

Jones’s paper read at the congress
just appeared in Prince’s Journal

and I notice it is marked „Read 
at Congress of Psychology“ at Salzburg“, 
I can’t quite see why he couldn’t 
say where it came from.  I notice 
the same in Abraham’s paper which 
is labeled „Vortrag.“ There is no reason 
why they should not have mentioned 
that they were read at our Congress. 
I do not think that it is necessary 
to conceal our very existence.  I 
have had a number of very nice cases 
since I am in the clinic.  I „cured“ a 
case of „Manic Depress Insanity“ of six years 
duration i.e. she had an attack of depression 
every year for 6 yrs. It was a very nice 
analysis. I am just beginning to under-
stand things.

Both my wife and I send you our kindest 
regards to you and your family. 
Very Sincerely  A. Brill.