Feb. 11th, 1922.  

Dear Friends:  

The Berlin letter is not to hand. I should like another copy if possible,  
for it looks as if it were lost. Till now my files are quite complete. I en-  
close for Budapest a copy of my letter of Jan. 11th and hope that the later  
ones arrived safely.  

Forsyth has just published a readable little book on the Technique of  
Psa.. It is mostly good and well written, but is elementary and shews no  
good understanding of the more difficult problems. I wrote to him congrat-  
ulating him and also inviting him to rejoin us. There was no reply for six  
days, then came a polite note indicating that he would have nothing to do  
with the Society so long as I am in my present position; at least it needs  
little interpretation to conclude this from what he says. I enclose the let-  
ters to Professor and also a review I have written of the book.  

Dr Mourgue, editor of “L’Encéphale”, has left Paris for an asylum in the  
Dordogne. He has asked me for a certain bibliography and I forwarded his  
letter to Reik as Zentralstelle. He is in touch with Payot and is evidently  
keenly interested in Psa.  

Stekel’s books are being translated in large numbers and he is enjoying a  
considerable vogue, especially in America but also here. People are especially
 

attracted by his modesty! He has found the catchword that a dwarf on a giant’s  
shoulders sees further than the giant.  

The “Leonardo” and “Gradiva” are both on the market. The former is sold to  
the medical profession only (lest artists be contaminated!), Kegan Paul be-  
having like the proverbial burnt child after their experience with the Auto-  
biography.  

Hiller has just printed for us a booklet containing the Rules of the British  
Society, with the Statutes of the International appended, and I would throw  
out the suggestion that each Society does this; it is very convenient for  
members and would lead to greater possibilities of comparison and perhaps  
uniformity. In the effort to formulate the International Statutes I found  
the task more complicated than it might appear, for there are several con-  
tradictions in the published accounts. I commend especially to Rank’s attention  
the booklet in Hiller’s possession. I wonder if it would not be worth while  
to publish the International Statutes in one piece in the “Z” and “J”.  

I was interested to learn of the arrangements for the Congress. No doubt  
Abraham will also be in contact with Flügel and myself. I see that the date  
has been changed from that officially announced in the Corr.-Bl. (J. 476). We  
should be in no doubt on this point. I think all the arrangements mentioned  
are excellent. The question of guests is certainly important. Could not cards  
be sent beforehand to the various secretaries, who would hand one each to a  
member with the latter’s name on it? This is a very usual procedure. Otherwise  
it is hard to distinguish guests from members. Three mornings will be quite  
enough for papers, though it will probably necessitate making a selection.  
 

I have been asked, in a very complimentary way, to address a joint meet-  
ing of the Educational and Psychological Sections of the British Association 
for the Advancement of Science at a discussion on Psycho-Analysis they are  
holding in Hull early next September, and am accepting conditionally on the  
arrangements they make.  

In a private letter Abraham suggests, after a talk with Professor, that  
standard fees should be arranged for all patients. The circumstances in the  
various countries are very different, however –– for instance, here the col-  
ossal height of rents and taxes have no counterpart on the Continent ––, and  
I do not think that anyone here could work on those conditions. If one charg-  
es a low fee the total makes it impossible to live, and if one charges a high  
one there are not enough rich patients. So we have a theoretical standard,  
rarely reached, and adapt ourselves to the possibilities in each case; at  
present, for instance, one patient pays me one guinea, one four, and most  
of the rest two. By the way, my dear Abraham, a minor point: it makes a bad  
impression to charge in pounds instead of guineas (21 sh.), for that is here  
a distinction between trades and professions (a fortunate distinction, for  
we get 5% more!).  

Berlin. I must really press Sachs for the fourth time to send me the review  
of Shand’s book which was due early last year. Publishers refuse to send  
 

review copies, which are so important, if they are treated in this way, and  
I have already had several strong complaints about delays. If you are too  
busy to write the review, my dear Hanns, please return the book; but that  
would be a pity, as you are the most suitable reviewer for it.  

Revising the translation of Abraham’s excellent Congress paper has imp-  
elled me to send him a few notes on the subject, enclosed, which are hardly  
worth sending around. But I should like to raise the general question of how 
often the familiar “sadistische Auffassung des Koitus” in children is not  
really a castration Auffassung; it certainly is so very often, i.e. coitus 
(often per anum) and castration are identified.  

Budapest. Eder, who is here for a couple of weeks, thinks seriously of leav-  
ing Palestine for good in July and of coming to Budapest for analysis after  
your holidays.  

Your letters are delayed by being addressed to London W.C.; I have never  
lived in such a coprophilic neighbourhood!  

Vienna.  
Hiller took back with him the second part of my Symbolism articles, translat-
ed by my wife, for the Z as arranged.  

Congratulations on the activity of the Verlag. The new numbers of Z and  
Imago arrived safely and are excellent.  
 

If you were suddenly surprised, my dear Otto, at my remark about Copyright 
extending for translations only ten years, I was equally surprised at  
your not knowing it. It is part of the Bern convention that applies to all  
books, not only German ones. I hope you have not paid Deuticke anything for 
rights he no longer possesses.  

The programme for the Library books is naturally only a tentative one,  
based on the data at present available. It will no doubt be altered according 
to circumstances. You may be sure that I entirely agree with you in regard­ing 
the publication of the Sammlungen as our most urgent task, and if you can see  
any way to get them ready quicker than it appears to me at present no one  
would be happier than myself. The situation is as follows: Professor asked  
that the Krankengeschichten should be the first to appear, and he instructed  
Strachey to translate these. I have not heard lately from Strachey how much  
he has done, but I imagine perhaps a quarter as he is a slow worker. Would  
you suggest that we take away from him part of the volume? I doubt if he  
would find that agreeable, and he is an excellent translator now. Then I have  
to revise it and know from the Vorlesungen, also excellently translated, how  
long that takes. Then, as you know, print­ing is very slow in Vienna. Of the 
“Jenseits”, which was sent to the printers last May, only 32 pages have been 
printed in 9 months, and I hear this week that they can do no more at present, 
for there is no paper to print these pages and no other type to set further 
until they have distributed the present type after printing. In order that 
there shall be no delay, I have ar­ranged that two or three translators are now 
working on each of the other volumes of the “Sammlungen”, so that the next will  
 

be ready for press as soon as the Krankengeschichten are printed. Can you sug-
gest any better arrangement?

Jenseits
The position of the other books is this. 4/s.o.. 5. Essays. 64 pages are
printed. All is at the press (11 chapters) except a short one I am writing at
present, but for which there will be no waiting. 6. Massenpsychologie. I fin-
ished the revision of the translation last August, but the printing has not
yet begun, for lack of type. 7. Abraham. Mrs Rivière is revising the translat-
ion, and can send some to press the moment the printers are free from the
other work; she should finish it all in May or June. 8. Roheim. MS in Vienna,
being revised by Rickman, who should do it before May. Hiller and I hope
that these five books will actually appear this year, but it depends on the
printers.

9 Rank. Dreams, being revised by Hiller and yourself. The intention is to
have them ready for press by the end of the year, when the printers should
be free. 10. Ferenczi. Second volume of Contributions. Two-thirds of these
is already translated and the rest will be done in about three months. 11. By
this time the first volume of the Krankengeschichten should be ready, or,
with luck, before. Of the later ones, Bryan is now at work on Reik, nothing
has been done on Winterstein or Sadger, but your mythological volume is all
translated, and much better than the dream one.

I shall be glad of your comments on all this, or to know of any further
information I can send you.

With cordial greetings to all
Ernest Jones