2 December 1913  69 Portland Court  London W

Dear Professor Freud:

«IP4,0»I append two extracts for your interest.  The first, which you perhaps know already, but which seems to me a very pretty addition to your camel‑totem, is from Porphyry; a description of the Diipolia ceremony in Athens: "They choose some girls as water‑carriers, and they bring water for sharpening the axe and the knife.  When the axe has been sharpened, one person hands it and the other hits the ox, another slaughters him, others flay him, and they all partake of him.  After this they sew up the hide of the ox and stuff it with hay and set it up, just like life, and yoke it to the plough as if it were going to draw it (Le roi est mort, vive le roi!).  A trial is held about the murder, and each passes on the blame for the deed to another.  The water‑carriers acuse those who sharpened the knife, the sharpeners blame the man who handed it, he passes on the guilt to the man who struck, the striker to the slaughterer, the slaughterer blames the knife itself; and the knife, as it cannot speak, is found guilty and thrown [in the sea]«FN1.××Crossed out in the original.» into the sea (castration)."«FN1.××From Porphyry, «MDUL»De Abstinentia«MDNM», Book II:30.

»  My book adds "All these offices are held in certain families by hereditary right.  The whole ceremony clearly points back to days when the ploughing ox was held sacred.  The older worship of Attica is all agricultural".

The other is merely taken from Sir George Savage's report in the «MDUL»Journal of Mental Science«MDNM» of the International Congress in August.  He sketches the different speakers with a word each:«FN1.××From «MDUL»Journal of Mental Science«MDNM», 59(1913):659.

»  "Janet's [His] agreeable and almost courtly manner won a warm place with all of us.  Jung was clear and precise in his defence of Freud and in his uncompromising defence [support] of psycho‑analysis.[...]«FN1.××Here, the following sentence was omitted by Jones: "It was interesting to find out how devout the worshippers of this cult are and their rather emphatic belief that unless one follows their lead one is lost."

» Ernest Jones [Dr. E. Jones, of Canada,] combined the clear‑seeing investigator with the unbiassed critic".  I don't know which of the three descirptions is the more irrelevant or inappropriate; one might perhaps say that the first is irrelevant, the second untrue, and the third inappropriate (for even if I am unbiassed elsewhere I must have appeared biassed enough at that meeting).

I should be glad if you could find time to correct and modify the review of Jung I sent recently to Rank; the last sentence is certainly not objective enough for the high standards of the «MDUL»Zeitschrift«MDNM».«FN1.××For the review of Jung, see Jones (1914c).  The sentence in question may have been dropped for the last sentence in published form seems to be irrelevant to Jones's comment.»

Yours  Jones

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