July 22. 1921

Dear Friends:

I omitted to write on the 11th, being by the wish-fulfilment that 
Rank’s plans for the holidays had already begun! It looks as if our corr-
espondence may be irregular during the holidays, but I hope it will not cease 
and that we shall remain in touch.

We held our last meeting last week. The attendance has increased, the int-
erest taken and the work done satisfactory, but elementary. I chiefly 
deplore the lack of original productivity, but it is certain that we are 
training a number of very sound analysts. A man named Egerton has applied 
for membership, saying that Professor recommended him. As nothing is known 
of him here, we should be glad of any information about him.

Jelliffe seems to be making a grand tour and writes to me from Zurich. He 
says that von Monakow is entirely Freudian (?) and that Bleuler feels hurt 
that Professor is “out” with him.

I suppose it is known that Stekel is in Chicago, and coining money? 
Frink was here this week and I had two long and very satisfactory interviews 
with him. We arranged that he cable on his arrival in N.Y. about the other 
American editors, but it will almost surely be Brill and Oberndorf, so I 
am having all the names printed on Nr 1 of Vol. II of the J. Frink will act 
as the American centre (for we could never rely on Brill) for collecting 

reviews and abstracts, which he divide up among the men there. We can ex-
pect very few original articles from there, which is fortunate, for we have 
more than we can print. Already we have enough in hand for the next five numbers!

After August 12 (for a month) my address will be: Elsted, Sussex. 
Practice is again reviving. I am more than full, and am quite clogged with 
other work. I expect the first proofs of the Jenseits next week from Wien. The Stracheys brought me their translation of the Massenpsychologie, and 
Krankengeschichten. Flügel’s book in the Library should be ready in a 
couple of weeks.

Last, but not least, is the sad news that we have not yet found a way to 
overcome the difficulties in regard to the Clinic. The General Medical Counc-
il, which has autocratic powers over medical men, without any appeal, may 
take action if we publicly employ lay analysts at a Clinic, and the Medical 
Defence Union legally advises us not to. It is dangerous to ask the G.M.C. 
for a ruling on the matter, for it would certainly be negative, so we are 
trying other tactics first, e.g. asking for a ruling about lay people who 
treat stammering or use hypnotism. Of course we could not possibly conduct 
the Clinic without lay analysts. Little more can happen before the autumn, 
however.

Bln. I was very pleased, my dear Abraham, to hear that you had finished 
your article on the weib[lichen] Kastr[ations] Compl[ex]. Will Rank please send Bryan a 
proof as soon as it is printed? About Durham (I wrote Newcastle as a slip 
of the pen) I have taken your advice and ar- ranged with Flügel to visit 
them when he is in Yorkshire, near by, these holidays.

Is there any hope of getting out of Sachs the review of Shand on which 
he has been occupied (among other things!) for several months?

Bp. Many thanks, my dear Ferenczi, for your remarks on the J. We have had 
much encouragement. I congratulate and envy you on going to such a pretty 
spot as Tegernsee, which I remember well. The change will surely do your 
health the good it needs.

W. Is one of the ladies with you a Miss Saxby from Cardiff? If so, induce 
her to join with the Porth people, via me. You deserve the best congratulat-
ion on the Heller transaction, which I regard as extremely valuable and 
important, also for England, for the difficulty of new members getting old 
numbers of the Z. etc. has been hardly possible to overcome. If we can get a 
Clinic we must consider re-opening a shop there! A propos Clinic, my dear 
Rank, your outpourings about lay analysts is what we call “beating a dead 
horse”, for no one disagrees with your view, at least in London. The question 
is purely a practical one, whether it is pos- sible to circumvent the law.

With best holiday wishes for all

Ernest Jones.