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Roland Cahen has sent us a copy of his reply to M. de Mijolle, who had attacked and misrepresented Jung as part of a paper he had given to a congress organised by Evolution Psychiatrique. I think that Dr Cahen's reply is interesting, well written and well argued and therefore deserves a mention and a summary in the Journal.
Dr Cahen suggests that the third and, even more, the fourth generation should really by now have managed to rise above the Freud-Jung quarrel and should have begun to study more carefully the actual historical facts. There exists a vast correspondence in which Jung describes—over the half-century after their breaking-up—what he experienced in his contact with Freud. Neither man, Cahen argues, ever recovered from the wound they each sustained from their split. For example, whenever Cahen met him once or twice a year, Jung could not help but mention and talk about Freud. And as for Freud, he refused to allow the Swiss group, which Jung had sent to Vienna, to help in saving him from the Nazis.
In the preface to his book, The Psychology of Dementia Praecox, written and published in 1906, to which Dr Cahen draws our attention, Jung expresses both his admiration and support for Freud, but also his reservations about some of Freud's theoretical hypotheses. Jung did in fact send this to Freud, and it formed the basis of their correspondence and of their first meeting a year later, and their subsequent deep affection and close collaboration.
Cahen demonstrates—very convincingly, I think—that if one vilifies Jung one really at the same time denigrates Freud; for it implies that one judges Freud to have been naive and indiscriminate when he lavished so much love and esteem on a person subsequently deemed so unworthy.
Cahen is sure that Jung's work will become more and more recognised as an extension and a necessary complement to Freud's work, for it deals with a whole area of the human psyche that has been left aside by Freud. Cahen also reminds his audience