Letter from Ernest Jones to Sigmund Freud, August 8, 1913

8 August 1913
13 Princes Street
Cavendish Square, W.

Dear Professor Freud,

I am very pleased with the London events and reception, from every point of view. Jung's paper at the Psycho-Medical Society went off smoothly, with a good discussion.1 Of him I will write later. The debate on ψα this morning was certainly a great success. I am sending you Janet and Jung's Sammelreferate [collective papers],2 and say nothing about them except that it was lucky that Janet was so stupid and exposed himself so naively to attack. I was asked to open the discussion, and found it an easy task, as I was in excellent speaking form.3 I pointed out that Janet's paper was full of misrepresentations and untruths, which was easy to prove by taking four definite examples; e.g. that ψα had two procedures (1) advising regular coitus with a preservative! and (2) applying Janet's method; that you had urged doctors to devote all their force and intelligence to discover an ideal preservative; that coitus will always cure all neuropathic troubles; and that the man you reprimanded for wilde Psychoanalyse was a disciple of your own. I said he was merely a disciple of yours in the same sense as