You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
Dear Friends,
My Paper before the Royal Anthropological Institute was well attended and has broken the ice in anthropological circles in England, though as was to be expected, it met with considerable opposition.
I see that the American Psychological Association held a symposium at their annual December meeting on the contribution of Freudianism to Psychology. There were four rapporteurs, none of them analysts; I have not yet seen any reports of their papers.2
I am at present negotiating with Messrs. Williams & Norgate for the plan of their continuing the psycho-analytical »Library Series«, but have not yet had any definite answer.
Berlin. Since both Sándor and Otto fall out, I hope that you (l. Karl) will act as Korreferent with Hanns and perhaps Alexander or Radó.
Vienna. I hope (l. Otto) that your throat is already better. I enclose a copy of my paper on Social Psychology and will send you a copy of the anthropological one in a week or so. By the way, have you heard nothing of Malinowski?
You have quite invented the idea of any Verwunderung die auftauchte about the symposium in the London letter of February 1st. or any later one. You have only to refer again to that letter to see that it contained nothing more than an official and surely courteous invitation to Sándor, Otto and Hanns equally to participate in the symposium. The only doubt was whether both you and Sándor would speak together, and I find it quite natural that, on hearing of Sándor's declining, Karl should assume that you would act in this capacity. I am sure that he will regret as much as I do your double refusal, for there is much we should like to hear from you which is not contained in your books, particularly on the side of technique. However, we may still hope that you may play a part later in the discussion.
With cordial greetings to all,
Yours sincerely,
Ernest Jones