15th Jan. 1925  
Dear Friends,

We appear to be unanimous in our attitude towards Rank, for I have heard  
on the subject from all members of the Committee except Ferenczi, and I am sure  
that his attitude would be as cordial as the rest.

Last month Miss Searl read a paper before the Society on the possibility  
or advisability of making conscious to the young child the whole of the Oedipus  
Complex. The discussion aroused so much interest that it was decided to hold a  
Symposium at the next meeting. This took place last week, the rapporteurs being  
Mrs. Riviere, James Glover and myself. We were unanimously of the opinion that  
Miss Searl’s doubts were due to unanalysed resistances. Mr Strachey was able to  
give us at the same time a resumé of a similar discussion which has apparently  
taken place at the Berlin Society, and today I hear that Melanie Klein is also  
reading her paper before the Vienna Society. I understand that opinions were  
divided in Berlin, Alexander Radó being opposed to Abraham, and I should be very interest-  
ed to have a fuller or more authentic account of the situation.

After making two attempts at suicide, one by laudanum and the other by  
cutting the radial artery, Frink has been certified as insane and is at present in  
the Waverley Hospital, Massachusetts.

The first meeting of the »Institute of Psycho-Analysis«, which replaces  
the old Press, took place last week. Membership of it is confined to the medical  
members of the Society (full, not associate) who are fourteen in all. The Board  
of Directors is composed of Bryan, James Glover, Rickman (Secretary) and myself  
(President). There is some prospect of its starting a clinic in the none too  
distant future, for a certain sum of money may become available from the Trustees  
of the old Brunswick Square clinic, and we are forming a Committee to discuss the  
matter.

I have recently been made a member of the Board of Psychological Stud-  
ies of the University of London, the function of which is to decide the curriculum of  
examinations in psychological subjects (medical and non-medical). As I have, of  
course, no official position, this is an interesting sign of the increasing prestige  
of psycho-analysis.

Practically no reviews of Freud’s »Collected Papers« have yet appeared; the  
sales of the first two months have been about 140.

With renewed good wishes to you all for the New Year,  
Yours always,  
Ernest Jones