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Internationale Zeitschrift für Ärztliche Psychoanalyse
Vienna, February 17, 1913
Dear friend,
Jung's letter (returned, with thanks) contains two precious admissions, first, the recognition of his previously denied relationship with Adler; second, the confession that with his contradiction he wanted to institute a neurotic test of love and power with me, which he now certainly sees as having failed. Of course, worth as an instrument takes precedence; worth as a person has to be earned by means of other achievements. When one is so clearly egoistic and unreliable, one needn't be very disappointed if things don't turn out differently.
Your reply (likewise returned) is excellent. The certainty with which you pass judgment on Adler is unsurpassable, and you also express superior and lucid viewpoints against Jung, which, in the face of his incessant mixing of the personal and the professional, have a liberating effect. I will refrain from suggesting that you change your reaction.
Rank will give you a recent example of Jung's dishonesty, even in unimportant matters.
I was still not able to read your contribution. It looks as if it has undergone much correction.
You very much deserve your excursion to Corfu. Even though I can't join you, I will share in it a great deal. I will probably pick up Anna from Merano at the same time.1 But I strongly urge you to come to Vienna again beforehand, preferably very soon, because we have to discuss the contract for the International Journal with each other, which doesn't work very well by letter; actually, it doesn't work at all. Not to mention all our other interests.
“Scientia,” a respectable international review, published in Milan, has urgently asked me for an article about ΨA.2 In addition, an introduction to Pfister's book3 and a preface to a little paper by Steiner4 as my next works. But the wear and tear on my intellectual mechanisms is so great that next I will have to decide on a typewriter.
A very intelligent and gratifying letter fro