DR. A. A. BRILL
55 CENTRAL PARK WEST
NEW YORK
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1April 
1914

My dear Professor

I am very pleased to know that you wish 
to read the manuscript of Wit. I will send it 
to you as soon as it will be ready. I am 
through with the translation but I have not 
yet arranged the substitutions and from 
present indications I shall not be able 
to do it before the end of May. I was busy 
this whole month reading the proof sheets 
of the Psychopathologie and writing an

introduction and index.  The introduction is very 
brief. I thought that it would be appropriate to 
give an account of the coming into existence 
of the Psychopathologie and what it treats of. I am 
quite pleased with the translation and I am 
sure that you will be satisfied. As soon as I 
will be through with the Wit I shall take up Totem 
& Tabu most of which is already translated. 
For the last four months I wished at least 
a thousand times that New York should be near 
Vienna. I am so anxious to see you 
and talk to you. I have been very depressed. 
It is not due to personal matters I am

doing well in practice, my family life 
is good but I am constantly annoyed 
by reports from Jung and his crowd. I never 
mistook him I told you what I thought 
of him years ago but I could have never 
imagined how low this man was. I don’t 
think that there is a meaner person in 
this universe. He is spreading broad cast 
the most vilifying reports about you 
he is distorting everything you ever told 
him in confidence and is manufacturing

the most disgusting lies.  It seems that he 
let it be known that anybody who wants 
to come to him can learn the method of 
psychoanalysis in a few weeks for the sum 
of 50 or # 100 dollars. A few such persons 
have been to see him and the only thing 
he taught them was to talk against you. 
One of these persons a woman came to my 
clinic and wanted to become my assistant, 
she evidently did not know the relations existing 
between me & Jung and she at once started 
with a set formula which came to me 
before from Dr. Hinkle and others namely, 
that the Jews cannot get away from the 

from the rotten sex etc. I told her that I don’t approve 
of women practicing psychoanalysis without 
a medical diploma. She thereupon told me 
that a number of neurotic women are now 
with Jung learning to treat by ψ. α.  She went 
away disappointed and then wrote me a 
letter saying that she was sorry she troubled 
me she did not know that I belonged to 
the „old school“.  This is the general attitude; 
Jung has discovered the whole thing 
he is progressive, sex plays no

part etc.  I am going to write a paper 
and will attack these methods of encouraging 
neurotic not medical women to practice ψ. α. and if 
some one should do it abroad it would 
do much good and would cut off at 
least one avenue of communication 
for Jung. A recent attack was made 
by Dercum he did not give one idea 
that he could call his own. He simply 
repeated what Hoche said. The Psychoanalytic 
Society does not flourish very well 
under Frink and I am very pleased 
that his term is drawing to an end.

On the other hand a club has recently been 
formed by the younger alienists called 
the Vidonian Club of which I am one of 
the officers and it is going to be a psychoanalytic 
club. In spite of Starr’s opposition I finally 
succeeded in getting the Clinic of Psychiatry 
in Columbia in working order and I 
have 2 men working psychoanalytically. 
I hope to make a psychoanalytic clinic 
of it some day. My book has come to 
a second edition it will probably appear

in a few weeks.

Burrow was to see me and from what 
I gathered from him he is quite tired 
of Jung. I also hear that Dr Young from 
Omaha  who was with Jung last year 
is thinking seriously of going to Wien. He 
challenged me last Fall on his return from 
Zurich to take up a debate with him on 
Jung’s method. As I always suspected 
Jung is behind the new Journal given out 
by Jelliffe & White. Some one should 
write something to put a quietus on some of these 
lies. Tannenbaum has recently written two 
good papers in answer to some attacks

quietus: Lateinisch; ruhig

on ψα which I should review for the Zeitschrift. 
Within the next few weeks I am to read 
four papers at the Spring meetings.

What are your plans for the Summer?

With kindest regards and best wishes 
from us all to you and your family I am
Very sincerely
Brill