6 June l9O9  4O7 Brunswick Avenue  Toronto

Dear Professor Freud,

«IP4,0»Many thanks for your letter and your kind remarks about my articles.  I wonder whether [you]«FN1.××Crossed out in the original.» it has come your way to pay much attention to the dyschiria and phrictopathic sensation I have described as hysterical manifestations?«FN1.××Jones (1907e, 1908b).

»  I am getting out a long study of the former subject in Brodmann's Journal shortly, and should be glad to hear what you think of it.«FN1.××Jones (1909a). Korbinian Brodman (1868‑1942), M.×D. 1898 Leipzig; famous for his work on the comparative anatomy of the brain; editor of «MDUL»Journal für Psychologie und Neurologie«MDNM».

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My boat, the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, sails from Hamburg three days after yours, but I hope to catch you up somewhere on this side.  I am very glad Ferenczi is coming with you.  I am very fond of him and shall be glad to see him again.  He has been doing good work for you, hasn't he?

You will by now have got my letter with some remarks about Worcester, and my fear that your audience is likely to be small.  Still perhaps, as usual, my opinion is too pessimistic.  I hope so, at all events.

I am very glad you give me the welcome opportunity to say a little about the subject, though I cannot presume to expect that my opinion will be a great factor in your decision.  It seems to me that the people on this side have no idea of the colossal amount of work you have done, or the mass of exact evidence you collect before carefully issuing your opinions.  Those who know you know how very much the reverse you are of hasty, and that any conclusion you put out is most thoroughly sifted and deliberately weighed.  But the people here, who do not know you and cannot read German, are apt to think that when you say "Dreams represent wish‑fulfillments" or "Hysteria has always a sexual basis" etc., [it is only]«FN1.××Crossed out in the original.» you are only expressing an opinion, or suggesting a wild hypothesis.  Freud "thinks" this, Ziehen, Oppenheim or Dubois«FN1.××Theodor Ziehen (1862‑1950), chief of psychiatry at the Charité in Berlin between 1904 and 1912.  Hermann Oppenheim (1858‑1919), Berlin neurologist, who in 1890 founded a private clinic which became an international center of clinical neurology.  Paul‑Charles Dubois (1848‑1918), professor of neuropathology at Bern, who considered mental disturbances in psychological terms, and advocated a rational, persuasive form of psychotherapy.

» "thinks" the other thing, in no way realizing how completely you differ from the other men not only in your genius, but also in the study and work you have done before giving [or] emitting your "opinion".

Therefore I should be strongly inclined to deal more with principles than with conclusions.  Couldn't you speak on some of the psychological mechanisms in general (Verdichtung, Verschiebung, Ersatzformation, etc.), illustrating them from different spheres, dreams, psychoneuroses, daily life etc., thus making the lectures nearer to the psychologist than to the clinician.  It would bring out the profound difference in your objective attitude towards the mind, as distinguished from the orthodox way in which the academic psychologist uncritically accepts the «MDUL»Versuchsperson's«MDNM» [experimental subject's] account of his mental workings and touchingly believes that everyone knows everything that is in his own mind.  "The Role of [Una] Unconscious [mental]«FN1.××Bracketed words were crossed out in the original.» psychological mechanisms in various Mental Processes".  This would then be broader than lectures on dreams alone, and would involve less repetition of your previous writing.  How does it strike you?

With kindest regards.  Yours ever  Ernest Jones.