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Internationale Zeitschript Für Ärztliche Psychoanalyse
Vienna, June 8,1 1913
Dear friend,
I am very pleased that Jones is acquitting himself well. Be strict and tender with him. He is a very good person. Feed the pupa so that a queen can be made out of it.
You are right. Our dear Swiss have gone crazy [meschugge geworden]. Maeder is as pontifical as Jung is boastful. For us it is a good opportunity to “treat” them. If you want my opinion, I would respond to Maeder again this time while maintaining the basic tone you have already set. Something like this: On the matter of Adler: regret that he didn't rather reply privately to a private letter instead of exposing us to the danger of bringing rectification from Adler. The true Adlerian essence has nothing to do with ΨA but rather wants to put itself in its place. Inasmuch as ΨA is involved, this is improper and will certainly be disapproved of in the Zeitschrift. As far as “withholding” is concerned, it is no worse than if the Zeitschrift withheld from its readers the results of experimental psychology. On the matter of