27 January 192O  111 Harley Street  London W1

Dear Professor:

So Von Freund has gone, and is relieved of his sufferings.  He now belongs to the past, like many noble and beautiful things.

Yes, I should be very grateful of the photograph.  Many thanks.  What does Brill write to you?  I wish I could have a word from him; I wait day by day for news of American affairs, for his article ‑‑ the lack of which now holds up the Journal ‑‑ and for the money,^[1] which we urgently need to buy American books.

I am glad to hear from Daly that he leaves tomorrow for Vienna.  You will have got my letter about him already.

I am anxious to publish your Vorlesungen (together with the Fünf Vorlesungen) as the first volume of our standard edition,^[2] and can find reliable translators.  Have I your permission to start on this?  Brill seems definitely to agree.

Southard, Prof. of Psychiatry in Harvard, has written a long scurrilous article against you in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology,^[3] which has enraged me.  He attacks your Krieg u. Tod^[4] as a deliberate piece of pro‑German propaganda designed to excuse the German atrocities on the ground that all mankind is evil!  The yapping cur!

Preger, the Dutch Jew, whose article for the Journal you have perhaps seen,^[5] seems a very intelligent fellow, and has sent me some interesting material.  He is unknown to the Dutch group!

Re your passage on S. 338, Vierte Folge der Sammlung, it has doubtlesss occurred to you what a pretty confirmation lies in our view that all unconscious symbolism is concrete,^[6] which I emphasised in my essay on symbolism.^[7]  (By the way, I have never heard if you have read this, and if you agree with my criticism of Silberer therein).  There are so many scientific problems I want to talk over with you.

Yours ever affectionately  Ernest Jones.

^[1]    See note 2 to letter 290.

^[2]    This is the first mention of a "Standard Edition" of Freud's writings.

^[3]    Southard (1919‑20).

^[4]    Freud (1915b).

^[5]    J. W. Preger, "A Note on William Blake's Lyrics," Journal, 1(1920):196‑199.

^[6]    Jones refers to the last page of Freud (1915e, p. 204), where Freud suggests that the schizophrenic "treats concrete things as though they were abstract."

^[7]    Jones (1916a).