Brief von Ernest Jones, 11. Dezember 1921, London1

Dear Friends:

I cannot answer Abraham's question about the Christmas holiday letters, for I do not know what arrangements you are all making as to dates of holidays, so it will be best if each group separately decides which letter they will omit, either Dec. 21 or Jan. 1st.

Jung's article in the Brit. Journ. of Psychology is written in a hateful manner against us, with the usual outside objections to the immorality of reducing our patients to infantile sexuality, but it is not worth while to go into details.2 On the other hand there is an intelligent, witty and breezy paper in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology by Wheeler3, Prof. of Entomology at Harvard, greeting Psa favourably from the biological side. I have written and asked him if he would write an article for us.

I have found in Havelock Ellis an interesting linguistic confirmation of the connection between sexuality and breastfeeding, which may not be known to you all. It is that the popular Spanish name for vulva is »papo«, derived from Latin papare, to eat soft food.

I wonder what Abraham, with his modesty about the preface to Delgado's book, would say to my boldness in accepting the task this week of writing prefaces to two of Professor's translations, the Vorlesungen and Leonardo. I enclose copies of them in the Vienna letter. Kegan Paul has bought the English rights of Brill's translation of the latter.

Berlin. In the event of Bjerre's applying to me about attending the Congress what attitude would you advise me to adopt? For my part I should be inclined to refuse.

Budapest. Rightly or wrongly, I have not the same feeling of secrecy as you appear to have, my dear Ferenczi, about scientifc ideas, provided of course that precautions are taken from the point of view of priority. I