6 November 191O  4O7 Brunswick Avenue  Toronto

Dear Professor Freud,

«IP4,0»Three reprints at once from you, only one of which I had previously read.  What a rare treat!  Thank you very much.  I especially enjoyed the one on psychotherapy.«FN1.××Freud (1910d).

»  You know that we younger enthusiasts (unwisely, I admit) sometimes complain that you don't often talk generalities, so it is the more welcome when it comes. You certainly have no illusions as to the future difficulties we must encounter, but it was good to see your sure optimism in spite of them all.  I was glad you laid such stress on the importance of self-analysis (not once, but continuous); I don't think the importance of it could be exaggerated.  When is your book on Methodik coming out.«FN1.××Freud planned to write a separate study on psychoanalytic treatment entitled «MDUL»Allgemeine Methodik der Psychoanalyse«MDNM», but never completed it, see Freud (1910d, p. 142) and Jones (1955a, pp. 230‑231; 1955b, pp. 258‑259).

»  There must be many people eagerly awaiting that, both friends and foes.

The symbolism you mention of climbing stairs«FN1.××Freud (1910d, p. 143).» and steps I have not yet met, but in English we call a roué a "high stepper".  Neither have I yet found the cravat symbol you told me of in Holland, but in England, and I suppose all other countries, the three following facts concern it.  Certain men [have]«FN1.××Crossed out in the original. » attach an excessive Affekt to the buying of cravats, are always changing them, and proudly show «MDUL»drawers«MDNM» full of them.  It is commonly thought to be highly significant when a young lady begins to pay attention to the cravats worn by a man friend.  A man resents greatly having his cravats chosen for him by his wife or his fiancée; it is essentially a «MDUL»man's«MDNM» affair.  Jokes on both the last points are frequent in «MDUL»Punch«MDNM»,«FN1.××Abbr. of «MDUL»Punchinello«MDNM», an English illustrated weekly journal of wit and humour, founded in 1841.

» etc..

There is no great news from this side.  The Association will be formed, but Hoch is delaying it by not sending on promptly the circular, a preliminary copy of which I sent to him as well as to Putnam and Brill, I must write to him.  Putnam was extremely proud of the warm letter you sent to him; He sent it to me to read, and it was certainly most generously worded. «FN1.××Possibly Freud to Putnam, 29 September 1910, in Hale (1971a, pp. 107‑108).

»  I apologise for sending you the last number of the «MDUL»Journal of Abnormal Psychology«MDNM», for after all Prince's silly article wasn't worth bothering you with. «FN1.××Prince (1910b).

»  I have written one in reply, for one couldn't let it pass unchallenged,«FN1.××Jones (1911b).

» and I think it will appear in the next number.  Friedländer's article will probably appear at the same time; «FN1.××Friedländer (1911).

»  I hear that his quotations from you were so "filthy" that the translator had to send it in as [a] written manuscript so as to avoid soiling the mind of his New England typist!  I forget if I told you in my last letter of my promotion.  Dr. Clarke, the Dean, asked the President of the University to make me Professor, but the latter said that unless there was any special reason to the contrary he would prefer to go through the usual order of procedure.  As Clarke has been much accused of favouritism to me (which is quite true) he agreed, so that I am an "Associate" this year and will definitely be Professor next year.  As Clarke gives only asylum demonstrations that means that I give all the University lectures in Psychiatry, which I have already started last month.  He asked me to teach only general principles of psycho‑pathology, leaving the clinical side to him; the result is that two hundred innocent youths are being severely inoculated with psycho‑analytic doctrines under the official auspices of the University of Toronto.  They are finding it very interesting, as you might expect, though naturally I have to give mild doses.

Paul Tausig has written to say that he has arranged for the Hamlet essay to come out in the «MDUL»Schriften«MDNM» series.«FN1.××Tausig did the German trans. of Jones (1910a).

»  Is this so?  Tausig seems to be a little of a «MDUL»blagereur«MDNM» from what I can make of him.  If it is true, and of course I should be proud to think that you found it worthy of the «MDUL»Schriften«MDNM», I only wish to say that I promised Stanley Hall that the translation should state that the paper appeared in his Journal, and this is of course due to him in all courtesy.

I am paralysed by the mass of material there is in folk‑lore, mythology, superstition, anthropology, etc.; there is urgent need for a great number of workers to collect and classify it.  I believe that practically all your conclusions could be proved, or at least strongly supported, by this material; it is simply amazing how everything harmonises.  Let me give one little instance, which perhaps you know, from Le Sage the Spanish writer. "Zador makes a Teufelspakt in a dream and in return the devil discloses in [a] gold‑mine in a churchyard (i.e. bed ‑‑ where one sleeps); he takes enough gold for his present needs, but is awakened by an angry wife to find he has passed motions into the bed".«FN1.××Alain‑René Lesage (1668‑1747), French novelist and dramatist; wrote «MDUL»«MDUL»Le Diable Boiteux«MDNM» (1707) and «MDUL»Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane«MDNM» (three installments: 1715, 1724, 1735).

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I have recently had some very gratifying results.  The boy with the eye obsession I spoke to you of has remained quite well.  Another much worse case I had been treating since January is hard at work and says he never knew what life was before; his main complexes were concerning the oral and anal zones, and his chief obsession that Christ was sucking his penis all the time.  It was a beautiful case, as he was an excellent subject.  At present I have a still better Zwang case of a young man who «MDUL»believes«MDNM» unshakeably that he generates electricity, that he can transfer his thoughts to other people at any distance, etc..  I told you in my last letter of one of his infantile theories.  Another was that sexual relations consisted in blowing flatus into the partner's anus.  This act has got in all sorts of ways connected with the ideas of breathing and speaking, and from mythology, religion etc.  I have concluded that the idea of flatus is perhaps always primary to breath (psyche, anima etc.).«FN1.××These ideas were followed up in Jones (1914a).»  It is too long a topic to put in a letter, as I have so much material on it, but I should be very glad to hear your views about it.

In conclusion may I ask you one more question (I am behaving as though your patience was inexhaustible, which it seems to be)?  In your list of Partialtriebe, paired off, you give of course Schaulust and Exhibitionismus.«FN1.××Freud (1905d, pp. 166‑167).

»  The former is necessarily concerned only with the eye.  Is there any reason why it should not be replaced by a more general term (you spoke to me in Holland of the investigation tendency), for it seems to be only the part (of course by far the most important part) of a more general tendency, including touch, smell and perhaps taste.  I was led to think of the point by finding what an important role was played in this patient by finding things out by smell, desire to smell the anus and, later, other objects.

I liked Sadger's paper on Analerotik,«FN1.××J. [Isidor] Sadger, "Analerotik und Analcharakter," «MDUL»Die Heilkunde«MDNM», 1910, p. 43, is utilized in Jones (1918b), see «MDUL»Papers«MDNM», 2nd ed., pp. 667, 670, and 685.»  and agree with him except perhaps for one point.  He differs from you in believing that miserliness is not cardinal, and may be absent in women of the well‑to‑do class. I find that in such women (several cases) the Geld‑«MDUL»complex«MDNM» is always important, that is, that the question of money is always very significant, though it may not appear on the surface as miserliness.  I have in mind one patient who was apparently excessively extravagant and «MDUL»generous«MDNM», who hated miserliness.  It turned out that her generosity was a reaction against her mother whom she intensely hated, who was very miserly (and who used to give her clysters till she was twelve years old), i.e. Analerotik and homosexual sadism and masochism.  Geld complex was none the less strong, e.g. she hated being «MDUL»made«MDNM»«FN1.××doubly underlined.

» to pay a cent unless she wanted to in her own way, etc.

With very kindest Regards  from yours always  Ernest Jones.