Brief von Ernest Jones, 21. Februar 1921, London1

Dear Friends:

What has gone wrong with the numbering, or are we to omit them now that we have regular dates? I think it would be an advantage to retain it, if only for simplicity's sake.

The chief news here since my last letter is the fiasco I regret to have to announce in the evening arranged at the Lyceum Club.2 They had definitely promised me that no guests should be invited except with my approval, especially various outsider pseudoanalysts, and that there should be no debate. Actually they invited a number of objectionable people, who had the posts of honour to the detriment of many of our members. Barbara Low, Flügel, and I spoke - I believe all well, with a good impression - after dinner, and then the hostess, who throughout had behaved very discourteously announced that this was a controversial subject, that we should all move from the dining-room to another room. where the debate would be opened by William Brown.3 There were nine members of our Society there and we all left the Club at this point, with the exception of Flügel, who with his usual cowardice could not bring himself to behave »impolitely«. I sent in a formal protest to the Club Committee afterwards, and the matter is still in discussion.

W. Brown is a youngish man, Professor of Psychology at one of the two main divisions of the London University, is also a doctor who treated war cases in France and maintains that he has practised Ps-A for eight years. My review of his recent book on Psychology and Psychotherapy has

been sent to press for the J.4 He stands exactly in the Breuer position. Recently he proposed to me that I should analyse him, saying it would not take long as he had no resistance at all! (He denies the sexual aetiology). I dis