March.11.1921.  

L.8/Be.Bu. & W. of 1.3.1921.  

Dear Friends:  

Can we not attain unity about our numbering? Jan.1,11,21, Feb.1,11,21,  
March.1 make 7, so that March.11 is 8.  

MacCann of New York (a publisher) has just issued a new book by Prof.  
Freud entitled Dream Psychology, authorized translation by M.D.Eder, so  
we have the very latest views. Eder, whom I asked, knows nothing of it.  
MacCann sent me a copy for review, and I see that the book is made up as  
follows: The first 77 pages are Eder’s translation of Ueber den Traum,  
published before the war, and re-grouped into three chapters instead of 13.  
Then follows, without a hint of a break, 160 pages taken from Brill’s tran-  
slation of the Traumdeutung. I have communicated with Heineman and also  
Allen & Unwin, who have the rights of the proper two books. I should say  
that there is a preface by Tridon, who says that without the dream theory  
it would have been impossible for Jung, Adler, and Kempf to have made their  
wonderful discoveries; hence its importance: they have “brought the study  
of the unconscious into fields which Freud himself never dreamt of invad-  
ing”. He, by the way, has just written two books on Ps-A, very wild, and  
makes there the interesting statement that the four great psycho-analysts  
of the world are Freud, Jung, Adler, and Kempf (of Washington).
 

It is a great regret to us that Eitingon was forced to return to Berlin  
from Paris direct. On Tuesday I received an inquiry from our Home Office  
about him, and I wrote a sharp letter saying that our firm had lost import-  
ant piece of business because of the dilatory methods of our authorities.  

Eder has just returned from a visit to Moscow. He says there is a great  
opportunity for Ps-A because the younger men are proving very open-minded  
and desirous of taking up all new methods in science and medicine. The Bol-  
sheviks are buying enormous numbers of scientific books from Germany, of all  
kinds, and encourage all scientific work. Unfortunately there seems no one  
in Moscow with a real knowledge of Ps-A. Is it out of the question that Oss-  
ipow returns, now that the intelligentsia no longer die sudden deaths? In  
any case there should be an opening for Rank’s enterprise in the sale of  
books.  

Ferenczi has brought forward two types of homosexuality, inversion of ob-  
ject and inversion of attitude. I should like opinions of how to classify  
the following case, where neither attitude nor object is inverted. A man’s  
ideal goal is to be a woman and lie with another woman. They are to be side  
by side, to caress each other equally, as far as mutual masturbation. He is  
unhappily married to a masculine woman (Prof. will have heard of the case  
from Daly), finds male homosexuality unattractive, but female homosexuality  
comprehensible and attractive. His father was effeminate and his mother,  
who did everything to make him into a girl, masculine.  

J. D. Beresford, a well-known novelist, who also practises analysis, has  
written to a friend of mine saying that the Freudian attitude of towards  
Jung & Adler shows more bigotry & narrow-mindedness than the usual attitude towards Freud!
 

Budapest. Many thanks for the Steinach explanation. I have Lipschutz’s book,  
but have not yet had time to read it. I am translating your review of it to  
print in the J., also your little article on bridge symbolism.  

Berlin. Many thanks to Sachs for his willingness to be Schatzmeister für die  
Zentralländer. Will the societies in question please take note of this and  
arrange their finances accordingly.  

Vienna. I am afraid that Professor’s diagnosis and prognosis about Brill are  
both correct, though the latter was to me especially hard to believe. Frink  
seems the man destined to be the leader in America. In any case he will be  
one of the three American co-editors, and no doubt Professor will decide after  
discussing it with him who are to be the other two. Oberndorf, I suppose,  
will be one, but I cannot suggest another, unless perhaps Coriat. I suppose  
it would be foolish to put Brill’s name on without his co-operation? His  
name must count for something in America. What a terrible pity for all!  
Perhaps Prof. will ask Frink whether Brill did what I officially asked him to,  
namely to get the opinion of the N.Y. group as to the most suitable editors.  
This was publicly promised America at the Congress.  

I am sorry that I cannot help Professor to a decision about Oberndorf, for  
I know very little about him. I haven’t the impression that he is an import-  
ant person, nor does the article he sent us change this opinion. I know from  
 

personal experience that it is a sacrifice to analyse during a holiday, and  
for Prof., who sets great store on the rest during holidays, it would be a  
serious sacrifice, even ✖ if he insisted, as he doubtless would, that the  
patient lived in another village. On the other hand we must all agree with  
the great advantage of having the leading Americans (and O. is President of  
the N.Y. group) trained direct by Professor. When one thinks of the Ausbrei-  
tung of Ps-A in America it is really astounding how few have a sound knowledge  
of the subject.  

I read the correspondence with Zürich with great interest. I find success-  
ful the Verlag’s defence of the book and the reason they give for not prohibi-  
ting its sale in Switzerland, but many of the other remarks could have been  
omitted with advantage or else written in a more friendly and less affective  
manner. I had to write to Oberholzer this week on business and told him that  
he should have addressed his complaints to London. I also told him that his  
condemnation went too far and used impermissible language, although person-  
ally I also regretted that the Verlag had published the book.  

The money sent to Liebermann and then Volckmar belongs to the Internat. Ver.  
and should go to Sachs as it is in Marks. It is the subscription of Gontaut in  
Warschau and Schneider in Riga, members, I think, of the Swiss group. Surely  
they should either pay in Swiss francs or else be transferred to the Berlin  
group? In which way have they paid their subscription to the Z.?  

We are glad to have the photographs, and they are all already sold, so  
please send some more. No doubt Professor will refer future inquirers to the  
Press in London, which will save him all trouble.  

yours cordially  
Ernest Jones.