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Internationale Zeitschrift Für Ärztliche Psychoanalyse1
Budapest, December 26, 1912,
Dear Professor,
I thank you for your detailed letter. Jung's behavior is uncommonly impudent. He forgets that it was he who demanded the “analytic community” of students and treating students like patients. But as soon as it has to do with him, he doesn't want this rule to be valid anymore. Mutual analysis is nonsense, also an impossibility. Everyone must be able to tolerate an authority over himself from whom he accepts analytic correction. You are probably the only one who can permit himself to do without an analyst; but that is actually no advantage for you, i.e., for your analysis, but a necessity: you have no peer or even superior analyst at your disposal because you have been doing analysis fifteen year longer than all others and have accumulated experiences which we others still lack.—Despite all the deficiencies of self-analysis (which is certainly lengthier and more difficult than being analyzed), we have to expect of you the ability to keep your symptoms in check. If you had the strength to overcome in yourself, without a leader (for the first time in the history of mankind), the resistances which all humanity brings to bear on the results of analysis, then we must expect of you the strength to dispense with your lesser symptoms.—The facts speak decidedly in favor of this.
But what is valid for you is not valid for the rest of us. Jung has not achieved the same self-mastery as you. He got the results ready-made and accepted them lock, stock, and barrel, without testing them out on himself. (I don't consider being analyzed by Fräulein Molzer to be a fully adequate analysis.)—For better or for worse: in future you also have to content yourself with self-analysis, from which such a rich harvest has grown for the benefit of science; the rest of us, however, have to consider ourselves fortunate if you help us to control our affects in the only effective, i.e., analytically legitima