PROF. D^R. FREUD
WIEN, IX., BERGGASSE 19.

Febr. 22^d O9

Dear D^r Jones

You are performing big work, accept my thanks 
for it and let me express the hope that 
the progress of our cause will coincide with 
your personal advantage. Yet in reading 
your – as usual – highly characteristic description 
of the leading persons in american Psychopathology 
I could not refrain from doubting your 
views in one point and regarding one 
man. You write, Morton Prince is an upright 
sympathetic man, very much leaning to our 
theories and you seem to get yourself into 
a sort of attachment towards him. Now 
I have been told in Salzburg that he proclaims 
my views are mostly taken from Janet and 
in fact identical with them, I know from 
Brill and the same from Abraham, that 
he declined papers sent him on his demand 
on the account of their containing f¿¿¿¿ 
to much of sexual matter – you say he is 
not prudish, but he answered Abraham 
that he could not accept the term „homo-
sexual“ because he has so many lay readers 
(or ladies may be) – his exposition of my 
remarks on the Unconscious are only 
bad misconceptions, which make me 
surmise he has never read the book 
but only looked at the special item. 

Now how can you reconcile the words and 
the deeds of this man, the judgment I must 
shape of him and the impression he gave 
you?  It might be better to keep from him and 
to be prepared to his bad intentions veiled 
by his friendly speaking.

As for your diplomacy I know you are excellently 
fitted for it and will do it masterly.  But 
I am afraid it is easy to do too much in this 
way.  Consider it is a piece of psycho­analysis 
you are performing on your countrymen, 
you are not to say too much at once or at too 
early a moment, but the resistance cannot be 
avoided, it must come sooner or later, and 
it is best to provoke it slowly and designedly.

I am impatient Brill should bring out 
some of my writings in translation, I 
will stand the blame for it and if there is 
true scientific interest independent from 
the money earning desire in your countrymen 
you will profit by the reaction rising up 
after the wave of resistance has passed.

Dont forget that we of Europe hope to 
see you again in the spring of 191O 
and converse timely with Jung about 
the exact term. 
Yours sincerely,  
Freud