DR. A. A. BRILL
55 CENTRAL PARK WEST
NEW YORK
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1913.
Dec 12

My dear Professor

I am very grateful to you for the 
two books which I highly appreciate. I
 was very pleased with your introduction 
to the Totem & Tabu in which you so nicely 
refer to the Zurich school.

Our letters crossed each other on the 
ocean. Unwin has the Psychopathologie 
and I heard nothing so far.

In your first letter you seem to

to think that I am not very interested in 
the psychoanalytic movement. I thought of 
this considerably and I concluded that 
you are right. My resistances are mainly 
Jung. Ever since I knew him well I 
never mistook his real personality 
and if you will remember I told you 
what I thought of him years ago. I
supposed that things would turn out 
as they did and that is why I excused 
myself for not going to the last Munich congress. 
I thought the matter over very thoroughly 
and was aware that we were in the 
minority and that one vote more

for us would make little difference. Knowing 
that I cannot help our cause the next 
thing was to forego the pleasure of seeing 
you. I knew that there would be little 
chance for me to spend any time with 
you and considering my home 
affairs I concluded not to go. The other 
members do not interest me as much, 
or I might say I do not interest 
them. Ferenczi has not shown the 
Entgegenkommen which he did a few 
years ago. For some reason which

I must say I am not interested to 
know he kept himself aloof. When I asked 
him whether he would answer my 
letters he was non‑committal. Rank 
I am sorry to say I knew but slightly and 
had no chance to know more of at the 
congress. Had it not been for our chance 
meeting at Hamburg I should have 
been very disappointed. Now please do 
not think that I am blaming any one 
I know that the fault lies in me. 
There is something wrong with me which 
causes me occasional worry and 
depression. I am not as active

as I need to be and I cannot attribute 
it entirely to my home‑family‑life. It 
is very difficult for me to sit down 
and write what I would like to. Of course 
I work from 8 mornings to 8 p.m and 
when one is confined to his room every 
day for so many hours it is not always 
possible to concentrate your mind on 
problems. Yet I feel that there is something 
deeper than this behind it.  When I analyze 
myself I often imagine that I am blaming

myself for not having done more than 
I did but then I say to myself that 
considering all I’m as active as any 
average man. People here think I am 
very active and admire me. And as 
you know I have been very successful. 
Yet there must be something wrong. I wish I 
could run over to Vienna for a few weeks.

My family life is as good as it ever 
was I am perfectly contented with 
my wife and have much pleasure 
from Gioia.

I am naturally very sorry to hear

that you are thinking of doing away with the 
Int. V. but I can see that it is absolutely 
essential to make some radical change. 
Things do not look very favorable here, 
that is another source of disencouragement.  
At the last meeting Jelliffe asked „a special 
favor“ of the society to accept his new 
Journal as the „local official organ“ of the 
society. He brought this question up before 
and I opposed it and was upheld. 
This time he spoke to the various cliques

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before the meeting was called and to overcome my objection they formulated the following scheme.  He asked us to take his journal as the official organ only of the "local" society thus meeting my objection that we are a branch of the Int. V. and hence have our official journal.  And he brought in many personalities by asking the society to do him and White a special favor because he pleaded "if you accept the journal as your local official organ we should be able to send it through the mails as second class matter", which means

saving much expense. Whether that was 
true or not I am unable to say but 
I noticed that he had the whole society 
with him so I interposed no objection. 
He will continue to do just such things 
and I cannot see how I can stand 
in his way.  So far we are under no 
obligations to take his journal that is the 
understanding. The funny part of the whole 
thing is that Jelliffe is a very ardent worker 
for psychoanalysis, but of course he

is thoroughly Jung. He is one of these 
persons who can make believe that 
he knows it all when as a matter of fact 
he knows very little. I have occasion to 
see one of his cases and I am satisfied that 
he had no idea what he was doing.

Our opponents are making capital 
of the fact that Jung does not believe 
in sex analysis any longer and he 
(Jung) is doing all to spread the idea.

I am busy in spite of this and I am 
very successful with my cases

which is a great pleasure to me. I 
purposely report only cases that were sent 
to me by other physicians so that I can 
mention names. Here too our opponents 
are only too ready to discredit us and 
the cases of homosexuality I reported were 
not only known to the doctors whose 
names I give but to many other 
physicians. The last case was treated 
in New York by no less than four

neurologists and what is amusing they all 
claimed to treat him by analysis. They 
all know that I finally cured him.

I received a statement from Allen about 
the Traumdeutung. He states that he sold 
1000 copies special, meaning to Macmillan 
of this city and 189 copies regular meaning 
that only so many copies were sold 
in England. I am certainly surprised 
at England.

I feel better now that I have disburdened 
myself. With kindest regards and best wishes 
for a Happy New Year I am
Yours Brill