15 August 1913  13 Princes St  Cavendish Sq  London W

«IP0,0»Dear Professor Freud,

«IP4,0»This contains merely a few disconnected notes on points I have recently come across, and which may interest you.

«MDUL»Zur Theorie der Angst«MDNM»!  Bacon writes: "We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous in the body; it is not much otherwise in the minde".«FN1.××Francis Bacon, "Of Friendship," in J. Spedding, R. L. Ellis, and D. D. Heath, eds., «MDUL»The Works of Francis Bacon«MDNM», vol. 12 (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1864, p. 166).  The passage is employed in Jones (1911e), see Jones, «MDUL»Papers«MDNM», 2nd ed. 1918, p. 490.

»  (This might be quoted by the Baconians as proof of his psychological insight).

Relation between desire and anxiety.  In English we use the latter word just as often to mean desire as to mean fear (e.g. I am anxious to meet him = desirous, eager, etc.).

«IP4,0»There is no new thing under the sun.  Freimark, in his book on occultism, and Wirth, in his on Somnambulismus,«FN1.××Freimark's «MDUL»Okkultismus und Sexualität«MDNM» and Wirth's «MDUL»Theorie des Somnambulismus«MDNM» are referred to in Jones (1910‑11a), see Jones, «MDUL»Papers«MDNM», 2nd ed. 1918, p. 338.

» frankly hold that hypnotism is purely a sexual rapport, and that the effect of it solely depends on this fact.  Again I discover that the veteran Hughlings Jackson made this sage remark: "Find out all about dreams and then you will understand insanity."«FN1.××Where the passage is taken from is unclear, but it is employed in Jones (1911f), see Jones, «MDUL»Papers«MDNM», 2nd ed. 1918, p. 267, n. 1.

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I suppose you know the passage in Boccaccio: "Who willeth thee ill dreameth thee ill."«FN1.××From Giovanni Boccaccio, «MDUL»The Decameron«MDNM», 9th day, 7th story, in which Talano di Molese dreams that his wife's throat and face are mangled by a wolf.  He tells her to take care; but she ignores his warning, and the dream comes true.

»  It is of course also found elsewhere in proverbs.

A little philology.  First re the magnetic rapport in hypnosis.  The word "coition" (English for coitus) used to be used till the 17th century to indicate the attraction of a magnet for a metal.«FN1.××Employed in Jones (1910‑11a), see Jones, «MDUL»Papers«MDNM», 2nd ed. 1918, p. 341.

»  Re Ferenczi on friendship!  Friend comes from the Sanscrit «MDUL»freond«MDNM», which meant a lover, and till 16OO the word was used indiscriminately in English in both senses.  I believe the same was true of «MDUL»/ i ^ o s«MDNM».«FN1.××Employed in Jones (1910‑11a), see Jones, «MDUL»Papers«MDNM», 2nd ed. 1918, p. 358.

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These are a few of the additions I am making to my papers for re‑publication in book form.«FN1.××Jones, «MDUL»Papers«MDNM», 2nd ed. 1918.

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The following phrase of which I was reminded by hearing it in a play of Shaw's we went to see last week, is curious: A London euphemism for prostitute is "daughter of a clergyman",«FN1.××Line of Bobby in "Fanny's First Play," Act III.

» originating in the frequency with which they tell their clients that they are clergyman's daughters.  The double meaning is I suppose this: First a submerged longing for respectability, but deeper than this is one based on the identification God‑clergyman‑Father, and indicating the incest origin of the prostitution‑phantasy (female Don Juanismus).  They are true descendants of the "sacred whores of Babylon".  Isn't it wonderful how such a connection will leak out casually and unpretentiously centuries later.  I am always struck with amazement and admiration at such instances.

I am just leaving for Wales.  My address till September will be: The Woodlands.  Gowerton. R. S. O. Glamorganshire.

Yours  Jones.

«IP0,0»«MDUL»P.S«MDNM»..  Re Regression.  It is interesting that the words "imagination" and "phantasy" had originally in Greek a purely «MDUL»visual«MDNM» meaning.