1O May 1912  4O7 Brunswick Avenue  Toronto

Dear Professor,

«IP4,0»Your very welcome letter arrived this morning.  It was good of you to send me such a long one when you have so much tiring work to do.  Fortunately I shan't have to disturb you in this way for a little while to come.  I am always divided in my attitude towards your letters between on the one hand the thought that it is unfair of me to expect them and on the other my intense pleasure and stimulus at receiving them.

I knew nothing about Starr's letter to the «MDUL»N. Y. Times«MDNM», but Brill had told me that he had said something of the same sort at the meeting of the Academy of Medicine.  I have written to Brill suggesting that he answer the letter.  Brill does not keep one in good touch with local events.  He is a bad correspondent, but one cannot reproach him, for he works very hard indeed and also perhaps finds writing not easy.  It would be an easy thing to deal Starr a crushing blow by way of reply; there are so many means of attacking him.  The only bright side to the disgraceful episode is that it shows how hard up for serious arguments a man must be if he descends to such low measures, and it also furnishes an objective proof of our statements that our opponents are influenced by emotional factors rather than intellectual ones.  As to your question whether wilful lying is a usual weapon among American neurologists,  I hardly think this could be generally affirmed, but it is true that such things are not rare, for I have known several examples.  Perhaps they are influenced by their electioneering methods when they try to deal with scientific matters.  At all events there are many of them that one cannot describe as civilised beings in the European sense of the word.  For some reason, probably on commercial grounds, this seems especially to apply to N. Y.

I heard from Riklin about Jung's visit to America.  I suppose it is to the postgraduate course that they are giving at Fordham University, organised by Jelliffe. He asked me to lecture on the neuroses, but I couldn't as I shall at that time be in Europe.  It is a great pity that the congress has to be postponed, but I suppose you have good reasons for it.

I was very interested to hear of your projected visit to England, and hope it will be many times repeated.  You should get better alimentary treatment there than you did in America, and I hope that you will enjoy the visit.  I trust I may have the opportunity of seeing something of you there.  If it were a year later I would ask you to stay with me, but for the next year I shall be roofless.

Many thanks for your opinion of my article on the therapeutic action of ps‑a.«FN1.××Jones (1912a).»  When I republish it in my collection of articles I shall amplify the time element you referred to.  I have already found a publisher for this little volume, and are [am] revising and extending the articles that comprise it.  With regard to the dream article I do not think I made any material alterations, so that I am quite revealed in it.  I do not expound the anal complex in the second dream, though it is plain enough to a «MDUL»Kundiger«MDNM» [expert]. «FN1«MDNM».××Jones (1912c), see «MDUL»Papers«MDNM», 1st ed. 1913, pp. 386‑390.»

Here is a good example of a Verschreiben being determined by an affect.  Thoma, in the «MDUL»Revue neurologique«MDNM», reviews my long paper on suggestion by saying "La suggestion joue le rôle principal dans toutes les méthodes psycho-analytiques".  You observe the double depreciation effected by the mistake: not only does psycho‑analysis produce its effects via suggestion, but there are many kinds of ps‑a.  I shall take my revenge by quoting it in an «MDNM»Alltagsleben paper.  On the same page he abstracts my article on the ps‑a method of treatment in the words "l'auteur précise les indications de la ps‑a [psycho‑analyse] dans les psychonévroses et il indique les cas [(imbécillité, âge trop avancé, etc.),] où l'on ne peut guère espèrer des résultats de la méthode."  Surely my article was not quite so negative as that!  In what petty ways can hostility show itself.«FN1.××The two quotations are from «MDUL»Revue neurologique«MDNM», 23(1912):432, regarding Jones (1910‑11a; 1909c).

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I read that you and Jung have contributed papers to a congress in Australia.«FN1«MDNM».××Freud (1913m) and Jung (1913c).

»  I wonder if they are accessible; perhaps I shall be able to find them in London.  There now remains only Brazil, China, and Greenland to be penetrated.  Still I do think with all the opposition that we shall suffer like Alexander for want of worlds to conquer.

With warmest regards  from yours always  Jones.