22 July 1913  Pension Gerö  Lipót‑körút 1O  Budapest V

Dear Professor Freud,

I have heard from Loe that she got back safely to Vienna, and has a good report from Dr. Kaufmann; she is to have the urine again analysed.  We had an excellent time together and enjoyed it both very much.  I find her incomparably more normal than previously, different even from May.  She reacted quite normally to a very disagreeable experience of a kind that would have upset her in bygone times, namely losing a train after driving to two stations to find it.  It was given wrongly in the time‑table.

I am extremely sorry to tell you that my progress in German does not cover hand‑writing, which is a matter not of knowledge but of years of experience especially when young.  I could read only four words of your letter.  In time perhaps I might improve, but it would probably always mean having to show your letters to someone else, so that you could not write freely or privately.  I am very fond of your English, which has often a classic, old‑world touch, but it must be more trouble for you to write than German, which means that you probably make the letters shorter than otherwise.  So in any case I lose something, which seems unavoidable.

I have just read Jung's New York lectures, in the «MDUL»Jahrbuch«MDNM»,«FN1.××Jung (1913b).

» no agreeable task.  They are full of contradictions and logical errors of thought.  He is very polite to you, except for occasional outburts, such as "Es gibt Ärzte, welche glauben, sie kämen mit Selbstanalyse aus.  Das ist Münchhausen‑Psychologie, mit der sie sicher stecken bleiben".«FN1.××"There are analysts who believe that they can get along with a self‑analysis.  This is Munchausen psychology, and they will certainly remain stuck."  See Jung (1913b), «MDUL»Jahrbuch«MDNM», 5(1913):415 and «MDUL»C.W.«MDNM» 4:199.  Jones likely felt that this comment was directed personally at him.  It surely hit a nerve as Jones had spent a great deal of energy in undertaking his own self‑analysis between 1909 and 1913, and would have resented the implication that he was practising a false (pseudo) psychology, i.e. Munchhausen psychology, an allusion to the so‑called Baron Munchausen, the eighteenth century figure, famed for his amusingly mendacious stories.

»  Very striking is his distrust of patients; he has evidently the feeling that the whole analysis is an artefact, and repeatedly talks of how you have been misled by patients and followed them blindly.  One sees here again the effect of his paraphrenia experiences, and the lack of feeling for what is real.  The silliest pages are S. 38O ‑ 381, a masterpiece of nonsense.«FN1.××See Jung (1913b), «MDUL»Jahrbuch«MDNM», 5(1913):380‑81 and «MDUL»C.W.«MDNM» 4:164‑166, where he attacks Freud's notion of the latency period, between the ages of five and puberty, in which sexual desire lies dormant.

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The «MDUL»British Medical Journal«MDNM», which you mention in your card, I have not yet seen; Forsyth is a «MDUL»Kinderarzt«MDNM»,«FN1.×× David Forsyth, paediatrician, M. D. 1903 and Doctor of Science 1908 (London), charter member of the London Psycho‑Analytical Society, founded 30 October 1913.

» once a friend of mine.  Eder is behaving more and more suspiciously in many ways, and I am now in doubt whether the time is ripe for a Verein«MDUL»«MDNM».  At all events we must put it off until after the Munich Congress,«FN1.××4th Congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association, 7‑8 September 1913.» when I shall know more of what is going on in England.  His latest news is that he is going to read a paper at the British Medical Association on "Jung's and Adler's modifications (!) of Freud's Theory".«FN1.××Eder (1913).

»  Without denying the gentlemen the right to have whatever modifications that may please them I certainly think this is a very malapropos time to discuss them in England, before the audience knows about the theory that is to be modified.  It is, to put it mildly, a highly unnecessary proceeding. On the other side I enclose a delightfully written article taken from the «MDUL»Pall Mall Gazette«MDNM», one of the leading Conservative London papers.  About a dozen sentences are taken from the first three chapters and preface of my book,«FN1.××Jones, «MDUL»Papers«MDNM», 1st ed. 1913.» so no doubt that is the source of the (unknown) writer's information, which seems to have made a favourable impression on him.  Perhaps you will be good enough to return it to me sometime.  I am going to translate eleven of Ferenczi's papers, to make a book for Prince's Monograph Series.«FN1.××See Jones (1916b).

»  At present we are in the middle of some New York chicanerie on the matter, in which as usual Jelliffe is involved.  F. has cabled to try to stop them.  He has asked me to review Pfister's book for the «MDUL»Zeitschrift«MDNM», and I fancy this will need some criticism.«FN1.××E. Hitschmann, [Review of Pfister (1913)],  «MDUL»Zeitschrift«MDNM», 2(1914):185‑186.

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«IP4,0»Well, my analysis is drawing towards a close, and I have found it so valuable that I am wondering if I can manage to get in another month next year.  It has without doubt been successful in making me face more clearly various character traits and dangerous tendencies, and I trust that it will prove its value also when it comes to be tested in actual life.  I cannot praise Ferenczi too highly for his skill and tact throughout, and he has also succeeded in making it congruous with the analysis to be very kind "out of school", so that on the whole I have had a very enjoyable time in Budapest.  Outside the analysis I have not done much work except German lessons and a few reports, but I hope to write my Munich paper this week.«FN1.××Jones (1914b).

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You are about to be bothered by a very troublesome lady, Frau Hoesch‑Ernst,«FN1.××Lucy Hoesch‑Ernst of Godesberg bei Bonn, Ph.D. dissertation, "Anthropologisch‑psychologische Untersuchungen an Züricher Schulkindern" (University of Zurich, 1906).

» who once visited me in Toronto.  She sent a letter to Vienna university, which you have perhaps got, asking to see you during your holidays.  She is a German psychologist, who has read most of the |×/ literature, and is sure she knows everything.  She is a woman of 48, with very disagreeable character traits, and in a miserable current situation, with little chance of future happiness.  She was to have come to me for analysis, but now wants to go to you, on condition that she need not mention the name or nationality of her lover!!

What does Marienbad feel like?  I suppose I need hardly ask.

With kindest regards to yourself  and the family yours always  Jones.

«IP0,0»«MDUL»PS«MDNM»..  I join Loe in Vienna on Aug. 2nd, and we go on at once together to London.