Brief von Ernest Jones, 1. Februar 1922, London1

Dear Friends:

At our last meeting a clergyman from Ipswich as guest related an attempt to invent by free association meaningless words that could be used as technical terms for such concepts as unconscious, preconscious, etc, in the psa sense. He gave a very clever and full analysis of his procedure, and I shall examine his MS with a view to publishing it in the J.2 Otherwise nothing new of special interest. All letters arrived.

Abraham's success with his lecture on the Abfallbewegungen before the Americans does not at all surprise and hints the solution of a problem that has been on my conscience for some time. Please realise that, partly because of the war, no criticism of Jung and Adler have ever appeared in English, i.e. no detailed and concrete criticism of point by point such as has appeared on several occasions in the Z. etc. The result is that the matter is largely looked upon as being an affair of prejudice of a more or less personal kind. Hardly anyone here or in America is in a position to remedy this and yet it must be remedied. The few better men are new and would not think it worthwhile to go through the old writings and orient themselves thoroughly in the history. For me it is out of the question, partly because of time and partly from Unlust. Now could Abraham make the sacrifice of writing up his lecture fully and publish it in the Journal? No one could do it better and there are few things that would be more useful to the movement over here. As the matter has already waited so long no doubt it can wait a little longer, but I beg Abraham to give it his serious consideration.

To save time I wrote to Professor, Abraham and Ferenczi about the question of accepting (till the next Congress, of course) the newly constituted Indian group, with the constitution of which I am fully satisfied.

As to the Congress. You were not right, my dear Abraham, in saying that the date was chosen in London or that it was inserted in the J. without