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T O E R N E S T J O N E S
O N T H E O C C A S I O N O F H I S F I F T I E T H B I R T H D A Y

The first piece of work that it fell to psycho-analysis to perform was
the discovery of those instincts which are common to all mankind—
and not only in these alive to-day, but also to the people of antiquity
and prehistoric man. It was no great effort for psycho-analysis, there-
fore, to ignore differences in human beings due to their differing race,
speech or country of origin. Psycho-analysis was international from
the beginning ; it is known that its adherents overcame the sundering
influences of the Great War before any others did so.

Among the men who met at Salzburg in the spring of 1908 for the
first Psycho-analytical Congress, a young English medical man
attracted notice ; he read a short paper on ' Rationalization in Every-
day Life '. The substance of this first piece of work is still valid to-day ;
our young science was enriched by it with a valuable concept and an
indispensable term.

From that time onwards Ernest Jones has never rested. First in
his post as professor at Toronto, later as a physician in London, as the
founder and leader of a Society, the director of a Press, founder and
editor of a journal, director of a Training Institute, he has worked
indefatigably for psycho-analysis, making the latest accessions to its
fund of knowledge widely known by lectures and articles, defending it
against the attacks and misinterpretations of its opponents by dexte-
rous and stringent, but just, criticism, maintaining its difficult position
in England against the claims of professional privilege, and, alongside
all these externally directed activities, accomplishing a quantity of
scientific work in loyal co-operation with the developments reached
by workers on the Continent, to which, among others, his Papers on
Psycho-Analysis and Essays in Applied Psycho-Analysis bear witness.

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Now, in the prime of his life, not only is he unquestionably the leading
man among English-speaking analysts, but is acknowledged as one
of the foremost of all the representatives of psycho-analysis—a
mainstay to his friends, who look to him still with future hopes for
our science.

Now that the Director of this J O U R N A L has broken the silence
imposed by his years—or to which he is privileged by them—in order
to greet a friend, let it be permitted him to conclude, not with a wish,
for we do not believe in the omnipotence of our thoughts, but with the
avowal that he cannot imagine Ernest Jones after his fiftieth birthday
any other than he was before—zealous, combative, energetic and
devoted to the cause.¹

Sigm. Freud.

¹ A bibliography of the scientific publications of Ernest Jones, M.D.,
will be found at the end of this Part of the J O U R N A L.