INTERNATIONAL PSYCHO‑ANALYTICAL ASSOCIATION

                        «IP0,0»27 February 1936  London W1

Dear Professor,

«IP4,0»It must be a long time since I have written a letter to you personally, but I always regard my constant correspondence with Anna as being communications with yourself.  I am glad to learn from her that you have got over the lastest trouble and you must now be looking forward very greatly to the coming of spring and the life in Grinsing [Grinzing].  You were in my mind specially vividly last night when I gave a public address at Oxford on the history of the analytical movement, including a description of your personality.  You would, I am sure, have been interested, as was the audience.  The general atmosphere in England is much more friendly and respectful than it was ten or fifteen years ago.

In connection with the history I wanted to ask you two little questions.  Could you remember in which year it was (a) you replaced hypnotism by the Bernheim device and (b) when you replaced the tracing of symptoms by general free association?  Also when does the word 'psycho‑analysis' first appear in your writings?

Mrs. Pierce Clark tells Leonard Woolf that her husband had only the American rights for the translation of '«MDUL»Hemmung, Symptom und Angst«MDNM»'.  She is under the impression that we have the English rights.  May I assume that this is so?  You doubtless know that Strachey is at present engaged on a translation, which is badly needed.  By the way, is Stefan Zweig's remark, referred to in a letter from Leonard Woolf which I enclose, as unfounded as the passage I have underlined about the Nobel prize in his book review which I also enclose?«FN1.××Further attempts to secure the Nobel Prize for Freud are mentioned in Jones (1957a, p. 207; 1957b, p. 221).

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I am also sending on to you a very sad lucubration by McDougall which shows how thoroughly upset he is at your refusal to love him.  I may say that the lectures that make up the book produced here an impression highly unfavourable to himself.«FN1.××McDougall (1936).

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At the moment we are relatively free from illness, but it is an unpleasant time of year.  Our chief enjoyment is watching the wing grow which Ernst has in a masterly way devised for our Sussex house.  It is so attractive that it would tempt me to go there to live if only I had the means ‑‑ an unlikely contingency.

I shall of course be in Vienna on May 6th.  It seems impossible to damp down all ceremonies, but I am using my influence to reduce them to a reasonable minimum.  In any case some of them will take place in the Berggasse when you are safely ensconced in Grinsing [Grinzing].

With my kindest regards and best wishes, also to the family

Yours always affectionately  Ernest Jones