19 July 1922  42 York Terrace  London NW1

Dear Professor:

«IP4,0»I must disturb your summer rest with a few business matters, though I hope they are of a simple nature.  To begin with the least important, Hiller tells me that you disapproved of an article by Johnson,«FN1.××The visiting Rev. P. Youlden Johnson read "Technical Terms for the Various Dynamic States of Mind," before the British Society, 16 February 1922, see «MDUL»Journal«MDNM» 3(1922):264 for an abstract of the paper.» and I should like your definite decision about this.  The article was accepted at the request of the Society, on whom, including Mrs. Riviere, it made a very good impression when it was read.  The interest of it seemed to be the attempt to devise an ideal nomenclature, and the evidence that such attempts were strongly influenced by unconscious factors.

Now that the charge of the «MDUL»Sammlungen«MDNM» has been left solely to me I have carefully reconsidered the whole question and wish to lay my opinion before you.  (I hasten to add that this process does not involve a moment's delay in proceeding with the publishing, which is going on satisfactorily).  The matter is not so simple as simply publishing one particular book, for a set of «MDUL»Collected Papers«MDNM» has certain characteristics of its own, such as re‑arrangement, etc.  One thing I am sure of, that it would make a bad impression on the English scientific public to issue such a collection in small volumes, as had to be done in German.  The usual size of such volumes in English would be from 8OO to 12OO pages, and though I do not propose anything like this I think the volumes should not be less than 4OO pages.  In the second place I am satisfied with the grouping of all the sections except one, that entitled Theoretisches, which is very mixed in content.  I agree with Mrs. Riviere that the long Geschichte article«FN1.××Freud (1914d).» should be taken from this and added to the first section (Einleitung), and that Die Zwei Prinzipien and the Narcissism«MDUL»«MDNM» article«FN1.××Freud (1911b, 1914c).» be extracted and added to the Metapsychologie«MDUL»«MDNM».  I would also add the Triebumsetzungen to the latter,«FN1.××Freud (1917c).» and put six others in the Angewandte«MDUL»«MDNM» section (Tatbestandsdiagnostik, Aufklärungen, kulturelle Sexualmoral, Kinderlügen, Analcharakter, and Traum und Telepathie«MDUL»«MDNM»).«FN1.××Freud (1906c, 1907c, 1908d, 1913g, 1908b, 1922a).»  That would leave only 65 pages in this section, which I would term Clinical.

Then I would group the whole into three volumes instead of four, which has the great advantage of making each volume unitary in nature.  First volume, 527 pages, Einleitung, Clinical, and Technique., all practical medical papers.  Second, 542 pages, «MDUL»Krankengeschichten«MDNM».  Third, 42O pages, Metapsychologie and Angewandte.  That is as evenly distributed as I can make it, for I have tried all plans, from three volumes to seven, and all other possibilities gives great unevenness in size as well as other drawbacks.

My plan would be to employ two printers simultaneously for the first two volumes, and I think I could revise articles for press faster than any two Viennese printers, so that there would be no delay on this score.  The first one should have started already.  The second one cannot start until we have the first article, the Dora one, which Strachey cannot let me have before August.  At present, of 71 articles, 27 have been translated, of which I have revised 8.  Strachey strongly approves of this plan; Mrs. Riviere would prefer to subordinate everything else to the pleasure of getting out one small volume before everything else, but I think her judgement in the matter is vitiated by this obviously personal consideration and by her non‑medical outlook.  In any case, she would agree to my plan.

She and I have spent one long evening talking over matters, and in my opinion the result was very satisfactory.  Contrary to your opinion, I thought I could detect some changes in her reactions as the result of her visit to Vienna, and for the better.  Or it may be that she is more virulent with a pen in her hand.

I have seen Strachey once and am to spend next Wednesday evening with him.  Rickman was here for an evening last week.  He has taken a house five minutes from me, which raises fears in me on account of his oriental attitude towards the value of time.  I like both men greatly and am looking forward to collaborating with them.  What do you think of my suggestion of making Rickman co‑director of the Press with myself?

At our next meeting, which will be in October, Rickman will surely be promoted to full membership, which by our rules can only be done once a year, at the annual meeting in October.  The Stracheys will also certainly be made associate members, and they shall be made full members if I can over‑ride the rule to the effect that members must have been associate members first for at least a year.

The preparations for the Congress are going ahead fairly satisfactorily and a report of them will reach you in a few days in the form of a Rundbrief.

I have a bad cold at preseent, the first since November, but fortunately it has not reached my family.  It has been an exceptionally hard‑worked summer and I wish I could see my way to a proper holiday.  I hope you are enjoying yours and that it will bring you all refreshment.

With affectionate regards,  Ernest Jones

«MDUL»P.S.«MDNM»«FN1.××The entire P. S. is handwritten.»  Groot   fl. 6OO July 5

Rickman  fl. 4O3,85 July 14.