19 January 1914  69 Portland Court  London W

Dear Professor Freud,

I note that Dresden is the place to vote for if we get the opportunity.  As our group cannot be legally incorporated into the Vereinigung until the Congress accepts it I suppose we now have no vote, but I am asking Eder, the secretary, who stands better with Jung than I do, to write to Jung demanding one.  Still I suppose the voting will be "crossed", and will not represent the relative strength of the two parties.

My attitude on the two occasions does not seem to me so inconsistent as it has apparently struck you.  Both times I wish for a dissolution if it can be safely engineered, but I see a great difference in a minority of the groups trying to force it at a time when nothing is happening, and the matter to be opened tentatively now when the other side opens the question of the Congress. Still I am impressed by your point about the reviews producing a situation that would bring things to a head more inevitably than any suggestion at the present time.

I am sorry to hear about Loe's condition, but suppose it is partly due to her state of mind while expecting Herbert Jones.  I am eager to hear what will be the outcome of his visit, whether they are coming to London, etc., and am dependent on you for my news, since she does not write to me at present.

As to the very vague subject of my own marrying, I will certainly take your advice about careful reflection and choice, advice which I find both wise and necessary.  It has, to be sure, come into my thoughts at various times of late, which is rather natural under the circumstances (settling down, etc.), but I realise that I should become more "«MDUL»fertig«MDNM»" [accomplished] with the analysis of my own mental workings before venturing to think of throwing in my lot with that of someone else.

You ask me about Moses.  One reason why I hope you will sign it is that,  whether you do or not, the authorship will be sufficiently evident from the style and contents, and if you do not, it will set the Zurich people speculating as to what it all means, etc..

I have a queer case at present, rather like Bjerre's case of hysterical paranoia.«FN1.××Poul Bjerre, "Zur Radikalbehandlung der chronischen Paranoia," «MDUL»Jahrbuch«MDNM», 3(1912):795‑847.

»  An unmarried lady of 45 «MDUL»believes«MDNM» that the local vicar and his sister make improper remarks to her for the pleasure of seeing her blush, that he ‑‑ at her mother's instigation ‑‑ makes references to her from the pulpit, and that another man does not want to meet her because he thinks she is in love with him; one brother has paraphrenia.  All this looks very like paranoia, with marked projection, but I feel sure, after a month's analysis, that she is only a hysteric.  She responds to analysis like a normal hysteric (rapport, no abnormal insight, etc.), and is already making some progress.

Sachs has got very excited over a passage from H. G. Wells, which I enclose, and which is said to contain the gist of your tabu theory.  I know that Wells held it three years ago, having reached it by putting together the writings of Darwin, Frazer, Robertson Smith, and others, but he does not appreciate the significnce of his accidental finding.  It is simply one more proof of the inevitability of your theory.

This week's «MDUL»British Medical Journal«MDNM» contained no more correspondence about |×/ but a review of Jelliffe's new review, in which they hail Jung's conversion as a "return to a saner view of life".«FN1.××[Week of February 14], «MDUL»British Medical Journal«MDNM», 1(1914):375.

»  The meaning of this relapse is more correctly diagnosed by our opponents than by himself and his supporters.  By the way, did you read a penetrating remark of Stekel's in the December «MDUL»Zentralblatt«MDNM»?  "Es ist eine ebenso feine wie boshafte Rache, die Jung an der [Wiener] Schule nimmt, dass er Sadger als einzigen Vertreter der 'bahnenbrechenden Wiener Schule' im Jahrbuch paradieren lässt."«FN1.××"The vengeance Jung takes on the school is as elegant as it is malicious, when he parades Sadger in the «MDUL»Jahrbuch«MDNM» as the sole representative of the 'ground‑breaking Vienna school.'"»  But he is too polite when he adds "Es gehört dies in das Kapitel der '«MDUL»un«MDNM»bewussten Bosheiten'."«FN1.××"This belongs in the chapter of '«MDUL»un«MDNM»conscious malice."'  Quotations are not from the December 1913 issue but the subsequent one, see «MDUL»Zentralblatt«MDNM», 4(1914):179.

»  I was very much annoyed by Stekel's review of some of my articles.«FN1.××See Stekel's reviews of Jones (1912‑13, 1913g, 1913i), «MDUL»Zentralblatt«MDNM», 4(1914):176‑177, 180‑181, 181‑182.

»  He altered every quotation he made, so as to make them absurd or exaggerated; thus "the chief cause" instead of "a possible cause", etc.  In one review he quotes an entire paragraph of 1O lines, supposed to be contained in my article, which I have never written or seen anywhere in my life.  I thought of writing an open letter of protest to him, but have renounced the project (with great difficulty), thinking it better to ignore the matter.  I suppose this would also be your attitude?

I can give a good report of work.  One of my patients has left, being an unsuitable case, another because she had finished, but I have still six hours a day, with some exceedingly interesting material.  I feel much more confidence and capacity in the work than ever before, and believe I am successful at it.  One case of typical manic‑depressive insanity is throwing more light on this condition.  It looks to me as if there were no such disease, some cases being psychoneuroses, others paraphrenia (especially paranoia), the prominence of the affective symptoms replacing the other mechanisms of distortion (as they do in dreams sometimes).  But of this, more later.

With kindest regards  Yours always  Jones.