«MDNM»«IP6,0»7 August 1912  13 Princes St  Cavendish Sq  London

«IP0,0»Dear Professor Freud,

«IP4,0»It was a charming sight, if I may say so, to catch your imagination at work, in the fire of creation, and I am very happy that the suggestion in question is in harmony with your views.  It should prove a stern test of what |×/×ruthlessly and courageously carried through, can do in the way of objectivity, and if it is successful it must surely be a valuable achievement, therefore one worth a great effort.  My own thought is that the council should be quite unofficial and informal, therefore necessarily secret, and in the closest possible touch with you for the purposes both of criticism and instruction.  Fortunately the last condition is not difficult, for you are delightfully approachable and generous with your knowledge and advice, as I can personally bear witness with the greatest gratitude.  What we shall have to do will be to purge away all excrescences of the theory, so far as possible, and to coordinate our own unconscious aims with the demands and interests of the movement.  It would be impossible to do this quite thoroughly without your constant guidance, for I suppose that, strictly speaking, you, the creator of the movement, are the only person in whom this coordination is complete.

«IP4,0»When you have the chance of talking to Ferenczi and Rank I hope to hear what they feel in the matter.  In our conversation the only subject discussed, raised I think by Ferenczi, was the possibility of a few men being analysed by you, so that they could serve as representatives in different places to teach other beginners.  The idea of a united small body, designed, like the Paladins of Charlemagne, to guard the kingdom and policy of their master, was a product of my own romanticism, and I did not venture to speak about it to the others until I had broached it to you.  We must surely have some serious discussion of the whole situation when you are in London.

And this brings me to a concrete demand of reality, namely the question of accommodation, which is not always easy in London in September.  I am now in the most comfortable and convenient lodging‑house I have any experience of.  The landlady is in every way obliging, and will adapt all things (meals, etc.) to one's requirements.  The cooking is excellent, and as one pays for every meal separately one is free to be either in or out to them.  Now can you send me authority to take rooms here from the 1Oth of September, unless you have other plans.  I presume you would need a sitting‑room and three bedrooms.  The others could also share my sitting‑room.  I am leaving London at the end of next week and should like to reserve the rooms before I go.

My wife had a most enjoyable time in London, and has quite recovered from her misadventure in Bonn (the poisoning).  She left last night for Holland, and will return about September the 2nd.  After the 17th I shall be in Wales for ten days, but letters will be forwarded from here.  At the end of the month I go to Partenkirchen to Seif, and then to Zurich, returning here on Sept. 1Oth.

Thank you very much for answering my question about the Ursprung der Verdrängung.  I think I see your meaning in the conclusion you formulated, for Rank had quoted it to me and we had discussed it.«FN1.××The passage referred to from Freud's previous letter (note 4) is not to be found in «MDUL»Totem and Taboo«MDNM» (Freud, 1912‑13).  But a similar one appears in Freud's added note of 1915 to his «MDUL»Drei Abhandlungen«MDNM» (Freud, 1905d, p. 225 n. 3), where he points the reader generally to his «MDUL»Totem and Taboo«MDNM» without providing page references.»  I feel that you have captured an important and far‑reaching idea in pointing to the inheritance of Verdrängung as the result of earlier racial experiences, but I am rather in the dark as to the relation of it to the Weismann principle of the non‑transmissibility of acquired characters.  I hope it can stand in harmony with this, and not in contradiction.«FN1«MDNM».××August Weismann (1834‑1914), important biologist, known for his germ plasm theory, and his opposition to the Lamarckian principle of transmission of acquired characters.  Freud's statement in fact does contradict Weismann's principle.  Freud's adherence to Lamarck's principle throughout his life ‑‑ against the grain of standard biological thought of the time ‑‑ was a great bone of contention between Jones and Freud, see Jones (1957a, pp. 309‑314; 1957b, pp. 332‑337).

»  Some of Jung's passages are either carelessly worded or they seem to contradict the principle.  Thus he speaks of inheriting the effects of various experiences, of these being "stamped in" on the race, and so on.  Is it not more likely than this that the capacity to react to external obstructions by means of repression and sublimation varied in different individuals, and that this capacity has been affected (developed) through the operation of natural selection, especially perhaps sexual selection?

The work with Eder is progressing very satisfactorily.  He will make a good worker for us.  I have also seen something of Berkeley‑Hill, who unfortunately had to return to India this week; he is very enthusiastic, and has quite a good knowledge.

I hope you are having a profitable and enjoyable time in Karlsbad.

With kindest regards  from  Yours always  Jones.