l7 October l9O9  4O7 Brunswick Avenue  Toronto

Dear Professor Freud,

First let me hope that you had a pleasant voyage home, and that you enjoyed your American "trip".  Any fatigue from it should be compensated by the knowledge that you have struck a powerful blow for the cause in America, and Brill and I are very grateful to you for both impersonal and personal reasons.

I hope you had a good time in the mountains, and should be glad to hear sometime as to what you made of Putnam.  He does not seem to have much «MDUL»practical«MDNM» knowledge of psycho‑analysis, but he is a useful ally.  He has this month published an article, Putnam (1909‑10).

in which he enthusiastically praises your work and method.

I should like to say something about my personal inhibitions, but it is difficult in a short space.  I am proposing to inflict a long account of them on Jung, who spoke to me on the subject, and if he thinks it worth while he can send it on to you.  The following few words give the practical side of it.  So far as I can judge my inhibitions, which I know could not have escaped your sharp eye, were never against your work or conclusions, but against the advisability of joining in your method of propagandism.  I felt that a more consciously organised campaign would have had better results than blind advocacy on the part of everyone who took up the work.  Naturally, as you will imagine, this attitude was at bottom determined by personal complexes.  However, the outcome of the story is that about six or eight months ago«FN1.××This coincides with the death of Jones's mother towards the end of May or early June 1909.  It is Jones's first major declaration of his life's commitment to psychoanalysis.

I determined not only to further the cause by all the means in my power, which I had always decided on, but also to further it by whatever means you personally decided on, and to follow your recommendations as exactly as possible.  In that I hope I am succeeding to your satisfaction, as tested, for instance, by my recent writings.  Anything you may care to say to me on the subject I will give my keenest thought and attention to.

Many thanks for your comments on the Hamlet article. I made the necessary alterations in regard to the death of Shakespeare's father, and to sex‑repression towards Ophelia. (Jones (1910a, pp. 97‑98, 98 n. 1 ). It was difficult to interpolate a full translation of the Traum­deu­tung passage without breaking the flow of the article, but I made a summary of its contents in one place,«FN1.××Freud (1900a, p. 265) and Jones (1910a, p. 98).

» and I expect that is what you intended.  Then I development [developed] Rank's work«FN1.××See especially Rank (1909).

» at much greater length, and added a good deal on the other characters in the play (especially Laertes and Polonius) from the point of view of Doubling and «MDUL»Auseinander­l[eg]ung]«MDNM».«FN1.××"Doubling of the principle characters" and "decomposition," see Jones (1910n, p. 105, 109).

This makes the article twelve pages longer.  Sanford wrote to me this week asking for it as he wanted to give it a prominent place in the January number, so I have sent it off. E. C. Sanford of Clark University was one of the principal editors of the «MDUL»American Journal of Psychology«MDNM».

By the way it has occurred to me in connection with what you said about Shakespeare's name that it might be from «MDUL»Jacques père«MDNM». It is known that the original pronunciation and frequent spelling was Shàxper, and that certainly proves the Jaques part of it.  On the other hand I don't know of any instance of père being added to a name, as «MDUL»son«MDNM» is in English and German; nor do I know that «MDUL»fils«MDNM» is incorporated into French names.  Can you enlighten me on the point?

What did you think of the "hypomania" case?«FN1.××Jones (1909e).»  According to Jung it is a dementia praecox case after all.  I suppose he is right, for noone knows more about the subject than he does, but I believe he would clinically include under dementia praecox many cases that Kraepelin would call manic‑depressive.  Brill tells me you didn't understand what I meant by "orgasm".  Well, I don't know what other word to use.  The patient, who of course did not touch me, would close her eyes, get flushed cheeks, breathe rapidly, make movements of coitus (she was on her back in bed), and come to a climax just as in an orgasm.  It was curious, wasn't it?  She did not use her hands for masturbation in it.

Do you think it would be worthwhile to work up any other of Shakespeare's tragedies at shorter length (Lear, Othello, Macbeth) and then write a paper on Shakepeare himself?  There is much material about him personally from our point of view.

Next month I am to give an address on the Psycho‑analytic method of treatment before a combined meeting of county societies in Canada, and the next month (Dec.) I am reading a paper on the subject before the Ontario Academy of Medicine. «FN1.××Jones (1910c).

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This week the Government has opened here a Polyclinic for nervous and mental diseases, of which I have charge.«FN1.××C. K. Clarke, "Preface," «MDUL»Bulletin of the Ontario Hospitals for the Insane«MDNM», 2(1909):3‑4; and "A Clinic for Nervous and Mental Diseases," «MDNM»ibid, 4(1911):73‑77.

»  Private practice has also greatly increased, and the University work has begun, so I am very busy.

I send you my warmest regards,  yours ever cordially    Ernest Jones.