L.10 Dec. 7. 1920

Dear Friends: Ad Budapest:

Answer to Budapest 72 & Berlin 93.

It was a great pleasure to get again a letter from you and to hear that you are better. I hope you will soon be completely restored.

About the money question, I enclosed a private letter on Nov. 23 with a cheque and trust that will prove satisfactory as a solution.

Dining with Dr Weizmann4 the other night, the head of the Zionist

Commission, I interested him in Róheim, and he promised to speak to Sir Alfred Mond‘s daughter5, a rich Jewess interested in anthropology, in his favour. If anything comes of it I will of course let you know at once.

He told me, by the way, that the interest in Psa in Palestine is very great, and that poor immigrants from Galicia, etc. arrive with no clothes, but with Marx‘ Das Kapital and the Traumdeutung under their arm!

Rank: Like Frau Dr Abraham, Bryan has found Kolnai6 too hard to trans-

late although he was helped by a German. In addition to this difficulty I much doubt if the Psa value of the book is enough to warrant its appea- ring in our Library, especially when we have so much material waiting. The first two thirds of the book is very windy and badly arranged, and the new ideas at the end would make a good article. But it would be a trouble for anyone to re-write it in this form, and I have the idea of simply printing a long review of it which my wife, with her knowledge of sociology and psa, would be able and willing to do. Then we could sell the translation rights to Unwin or someone else who could have the amusement of translating it. What do you think?

Hiller proposes to leave for Vienna on Dec. 15th, where he is evidently badly needed; I am sure he will prove invaluable there for the English work.

The newspapers have had a series of articles lately on psa, the tone being that since the value of this method is widely accepted it is important to avoid the harm done by enthusiastic amateurs, of whom there are hundreds in London now; most novelists seem to practice Psa. privately!7 I find Abraham‘s idea excellent that each member of the Committee should appear with a Beitrag at our meeting, but would suggest that they be short ones destined rather to invite general discussion. By the way, it will not be long before we should begin to discuss whether we have a general Congress next year, for in that event we should give the Ameri- cans better notice than last time, as they have to book passages so early beforehand.

Flügel and I have drawn up a questionnaire to be sent to each Society, so as to enable us to make the report ordered by the Congress on conditions of membership, etc.

He read a paper last night before the Educational Section of the Brit. Soc. of Psychology.8 Last week I was in the chair at a meeting of the Medical Section of that Society and had a warm duel with the defenders of Jung; I do not think the audience was in doubt as to which got the bet- ter of the discussion, and I hope it will clear the minds of doubters. But we are badly in need of a complete exposé of Jung’s ideas and their point of departure, in fact and in tendency, from Psa.. You should remember that although it is all an alte Geschichte for us, never has a word of criti- cism appeared in England or America, so that it is difficult for the youn- ger generation to orient themselves clearly on the matter and be able to answer at once the points raised by the Jungians. This is partly my own fault, for in 1912-1913 I joined with you in conducting the fight in the Zeitschrift, which had logically to precede expositions abroad, and then. I was too »fed up« to go on with the matter, and after that came the war. But there is no doubt that it is a duty of our new Journal to help our be- ginners to clearness by thoroughly expounding the situation once and for all, perhaps also with Adler‘s ideas. The question is who has at the same time capacity and the taste for this unpleasant task?

With cordial greetings to all

yours Ernest Jones