December 15, 1924.  

Dear Friends:  

Only from Berlin has a Rundbrief arrived. I cordially agree with the pro-  
posals in it — to accept Fräulein Anna as full member, to invite Brill to the next meet-  
ing, and to send our letters once a month.  

The chief news from here is the publication last month of Vol. I and II of  
Freud’s Collected Papers (Early, Clinical, and Technique). The next vol-  
ume, with the five Case Histories, appears in March, and the final one next September. No  
reviews have yet appeared. A propos reviews, I should like to ask what arrangements  
are being made for the reviews of the recent books by Abraham, Ferenczi, and Rank;  
I wish for closer collaboration between the Z and J, in this and other matters.  

Our Society is active, in attendance, discussion, etc. Last month I read a  
paper on Mother-Right, explaining this as one of the institutions designed to  
guard against incest. Two anthropologists present as guests supported the explan-  
ation, Malinowski and Seligmann (the latter is Prof. of Anthropology at the Univ-
ersity of London and President of the Royal Anthropological Institute). Last week 
Seligmann read a paper before the British Psychol. Soc., with an attendance of 
120, on the unconscious in savages, quite in a psa sense; the discussion proceeded  
along modern lines. Recently Miss Searl read a paper before our society on the  
problem of dealing with the Oedipus age in children. The discussion opened so  
many practical and theoretical questions that it was decided to organise a symp-  
osium on the subject for Jan. 7. Tomorrow Rickman reads a paper on psa and psych-  
iatry before the Medical Section of the Brit. Psychol. Soc.
 

Part 4 of the 1924 Journal appeared in October. So far I have only received 
two parts of the Zeitschrift and one of Imago for 1924. What is the news con-  
cerning these organs?  

This autumn has seen a fresh campaign against psa here, but fortunately con-  
fined to a few acrimonious individuals. Two violent books against psa will be  
found described in the J reviews (Wohlgemuth and McBride).  

We shall be interested to hear the result of the negotiations with Oberholzer  
about the Congress, which presumably will certainly take place in Switzerland.  

With all friendly greetings and best wishes for a Happy Christmas.  
yours always  

Ernest Jones