Dear Professor Freud:

I was very sorry to hear of your sister‑in‑law's illness, and hope that the next news I get will be much better.

I enclose a rather wobbling letter of Putnam's.  His "«MDUL»Gutmu[ü]tigkeit«MDNM» [good nature]" is really quite a disease.  I shall try to prevent him at all events from becoming mixed up with Adler, and hope to succeed.  His corrected paper I will post to Rank.«FN1.××Putnam (1914b).

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The enclosed cutting from the «MDUL»British Medical Journal«MDNM» reminds me of your remark "Es ist den wenigsten Menschen möglich, im wissenschaftlichen Streit manierlich, geschweige denn sachlich zu bleiben."«FN1.××"Only very few people can remain well‑mannered, let alone objective, when engaged in scientific disputes."»  Still, the editor's remarks are so obviously irrelevant and polemical that the total impression on the reader must be mainly favourable to my attitude, and I regard it on the whole as good luck to have provoked such a foolish reaction on his part.

On the other side I have excellent news to report from the English psychologists, which confirms my expectation that they would prove more accessible than neurologists.  The meeting at Durham was an unqualified success.  The details I shall write up for the «MDUL»Zeitschrift«MDNM».«FN1.××Jones had attended a recent meeting of the British Psychological Society.  The report did not appear in the «MDUL»Zeitschrift«MDNM».

»  All the speakers were on our side, and one may say that the conceptions of repression and the unconscious received good recognition amongst English psychologists and philosophers.  There remains that of infantile sexuality, which fortunately did not come first in order of consideration.  I know of course that acceptance of these two conceptions in the abstract is but a small step towards application of them in the concrete, but still it is a good beginning.  With some there was the usual tendency to explain forgetting on the usual principles, and to reserve the |×/ explanation for a few cases, but I raised a laugh by saying that before giving our explanations we had first to create a «MDUL»need«MDNM» for them (as with infantile amnesia), just as the Salvation Army cannot save souls before they have first created a sense of sin.

After the meeting we had two days' holiday in delightful surroundings.  The men were all very intimately known to one another and it made an agreeable family party, into which I was cordially welcomed.  |×/ as the central theme of discussion throughout, and naturally under such friendly and informal circumstances it was possible to explain difficult points in a satisfactory way.  McDougall, of Oxford, asked me to analyse a dream, and we spent one whole morning on it.  Plenty of material came out that made a great impression on him as to the correctness of our methods and conclusions.  They asked me to take part in their next symposium in November on "Relation of Emotion to Instinct", and also to deliver an address in January on Repression«FN1.××Jones (1915a).

» (I had talked for 1 1/2 hours at the meeting on this, and explained I could then cover only a small part of the subject).  So at present I have good grounds to be in an elated mood and hope that some men will take up the work.  One clever young psychologist, Pear of Manchester,«FN1.××T. H. Pear, M. A., B. Sc., after the war was Professor of Psychology, University of Manchester.

» has already done so and confirms the findings for adult life, though not yet for childhood.

You are right in saying that Jung would probably try compromising tactics if we allowed him to speak at our society, which is just the reason why I vetoed the suggestion, especially since we have so few strong members.

Can you tell me anything about the Internat. Congress for Sexuology, to be held in Berlin next October?  I miss your name in the list of supporters.  Is there some reason for this?  The Royal Society of Medicine has asked me to represent it at the Congress, and I have provisionally accepted, though it is not likely I shall go, as I told them.«FN1.××International Congress for Sexual Research, 31 October ‑ 2 November 1914, see «MDUL»Zeitschrift«MDNM» 2(1914):293, 400‑401.  (Jones did not attend this meeting.)

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I was not surprised at what you said about Loe; we can only hope for the best.  I suppose I shall see her in another month's time.

Again with best wishes for your holiday and that there will be no reason to delay it.

Yours affectionately  Jones