6 February 1914  69 Portland Court  London W

Dear Professor Freud,

«IP4,0»First as to the enclosed abstracts.  They are (1) the translation of a verse by Sappho«FN1.××Sappho (b. ca. 640 B. C.), famous Greek poetess of the island of Lesbos.» to a loved object, illustrating beautifully the relation between Libido and Angst by describing the symptoms of an Angstanfall, (2) an extract from the newspaper showing an interesting conception of Hamlet, and (3) the correspondence up to date on the |×/ in the «MDUL»British Medical Journal«MDNM», the chief letters being marked by a cross at the side.  Will you please return these last.  You will see that the paranoiac Mercier, the son of a French father who defends "English clean‑mindedness" and hates everything from the Continent, has drawn a hornets' nest about his head.  All the four letters this week, including one from Stoddart, the superintendent of Bethlem asylum and a well‑known psychiatrist, are in our favour.  The editor, however, has suppressed a letter from Eder (which I wrote) which simply crushed Mercier's quotations from Maeder, and was written in a very suave manner.  On the whole, therefore, the situation is pretty good, and there is still some fair play left in old England.«FN1.××See letters by W. H. B. Stoddart, William Brown, David Forsyth, and Edith G. Collett, «MDUL»British Medical Journal«MDNM», 1(1914):340‑341, in response to those of Charles Mercier, «MDUL»British Medical Journal«MDNM», 1(1914):172‑173, 276.

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Not hearing from you for so long, I wondered if there were any fresh complications in the situation with Loe, which were taking time to adjust themselves.  I am glad to hear she is behaving better, but am eager to hear all that has happened, whether Herbert Jones is still there, what they have decided, whether she is coming to London, etc.  She does not write to me at all.

I was glad you liked Louis, and was afraid you would find him too obvious.  It interested me historically, and as shewing that |×/ can make some contributions to historical problems, also perhaps psychiatrically (paranoia versus hypochondria).

Jung has sent us a circular, and we shall vote on it at our meeting next Thursday.  In the «MDUL»Journal of Mental Science«MDNM» for October appears a very remarkble review of Jung's «MDUL»Wandlungen«MDNM» essay, by one Alexander Neuer (unknown to me, and not in the medical directory).«FN1.××Alexander Neuer, "An Attempt to Expound the Psycho‑Analytical Theory," «MDUL»Journal of Mental Science«MDNM», 59(1913):660‑666.

»  He is a follower of Adler, traces Jung to Adler (not historically) and is very perspicacious about Jung's "veiled, but savage attack" on yourself.  If you wish, I could procure for you a copy of the number.

I find that Comte's three stages of mental development in mankind (which we searched for in vain last year) are: religious, metaphysical, positivist,«FN1.××Auguste Comte (1798‑1857), French philosopher, founder of Positivism, formulated a notion of science as progressing through the three stages referred to by Jones. » so your originality still holds the field.  Of the full series animism, mythology, religion, philosophy, science, he omits the first two, ‑‑ characteristic of his period!  I am exceedingly busy at many things, and am glad to hear you are likewise.  What are you writing at present?  I hope I do not bother you too much.

With kindest regards  Yours always cordially  Jones.