9 July 192O  111 Harley Street  London W1

Dear Professor:

*IP4,0+I have just seen the Bernays translation.*FN1.AA*MDUL+A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis*MDNM+ (Boni and Liveright, 1920) was a mixed translation of Freud (1916‑17) by graduates of Columbia University.  See Jones (1957a, pp. 9‑10; 1957b, 9‑10); and Edward L. Bernays, "Uncle Sigi," *MDUL+Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences*MDNM+, 35(1980):216‑220.  Edward Bernays (b. 1891) was Freud's nephew and a pioneer in the field of public relations.

+  No translator's name is mentioned, and Bernays plays a Yankee trick by putting on the title page

*IP0,0+              Authorized Translation

                  With Preface

                       By

                  Stanley Hall.

Hall (who was a pupil of Wundt's) draws a long parallel between you and Wundt, closing with the hope that you will not follow Wundt in parting from your best pupils such as Adler.  The translation is loose and rapidly done, full of vulgar Americanisms.  You are made to speak in a very unworthy style, so that the reader must get an unfavourable impression of your personality.  The translator does not seem to be an analyst, for he makes such mistakes as using "suppression" for "Verdrängung" in spite of our efforts to make "repression" a technical term distinguished from suppression.  Still it is perhaps better than Brill's translations, for I have not noticed any performances quite equal to his famous rendering of halluzinatorische Besetzung as "an hallucinatory occupation".*FN1.AA See S. Freud, *MDUL+The Interpretation of Dreams*MDNM+, trans. A. A. Brill (London: G. Allen; New York: MacMillan, 1916, p. 435).  Brill's translation is actually a good one, and Jones again displays his weakness in the German language.  Strachey's translation in Freud (1900a, p. 548), *MDUL+G.W.*MDNM+ 3:554, is of course "hallucinatory cathexis."

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*IP4,0+I am arranging, I trust with your permission, that an English translation be published in London by the Press and Unwin on the plan of half profits, they providing the capital.  We are offering Bernays ,25 for the rights to use his translation as a basis, but of course it will be re‑written. I cannot see the need of any introduction, with the exception, perhaps, of some sentences by me on the paper jacket and advertisements.

Is the enclosed interview authentic?

Could you spare time to give me the answer to a technical question?  ON S. 282 of the 4. *MDUL+Sammlung*MDNM+, and elsewhere in your writings, you speak of the Anziehung des schon Verdrängten as a factor in further repression.*FN1.AAThe "attraction exercised by what was primally repressed upon everything with which it can establish a connection" is discussed in Freud (1915d, p. 148), *MDUL+G.W.*MDNM+ 10:250‑251.

+  Do you mean this literally, that a force is exercised [...]*FN1.AAThe words "on the part of" are crossed out.+ by the repressed, or would you agree to the following formulation?  That material which becomes associated with repressed material becomes thereby subject to the same psychical conditions as the latter, i.e. *MDUL+also*MDNM+ acted on by the repressing forces exerted from the preconscious?  This is how I have always pictured the matter.  The result is the same, but the theory is a little different.

Yours always  Ernest Jones