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Internationale Zeitschrift für Ärztliche Psychoanalyse
Budapest, November 8, 1913
Dear Professor,
According to Jones's and Abraham's elucidations, I don't think we can bring about the dissolution of the International Association. Nothing remains but a collective resignation of those members of all groups who are with you.1 An International Psychoanalytic Association from which you, Abraham, Jones, all Viennese and Budapesters, Brill (perhaps Putnam) have resigned—with Jung at the head—won't count for much. You must immediately set in motion the founding of the new Association. Small local interests of London and Berlin don't count; one can't reckon with those who don't want to come along anyway. The public at large will only surmise Jung's downfall from the event of the resignations; the Zeitschrift will then be able to put the whole story into the proper light. The resignations will also put an end to the unpleasant duty of having to publish the Swiss tirades in the Korrespondenzblatt. Jung's “theopsychology” will stand there isolated and won't be able to hide behind your name. We don't get anything out of the International Association. Its dissolution will be a deliverance.
Returning Jones's letter enclosed.
Cordially,
Ferenczi
Abraham (Freud/Abraham, November 4, 1913, pp. 153f) and Jones (Jones II, 150) had advised against dissolving the IPA. They were skeptical as to whether the American and Berlin groups would agree to such a decision, and they also feared that Jung would oppose the dissolution and that, in the event of the resignation of the group around Freud, “he [Jung] would be left in possession” (Jones II, 150).