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29 August 1913
S. Martino
My dear Jones,
Your paper is excellent, unsparingly clear, clever and just. I feel some resistance against writing you in English after reading your German. You ought to learn gothic letters too.—You are right that there is some scarcity in your remarks about an important point against Jung. You might add that there is a special interest in abstaining from decisions in the Zwangs-cases, where the patient is luring to renew his play with the precepts given from without, which he had performed hitherto with those given from within. As regards the question of the importance of the unconscious fancies I see no reason why we should submit to the arbitrary judgment of Jung instead of the necessary one of the patient himself. If the latter values those productions as his most precious secrets (the off-spring of his day-dreams), we have to accept this position and must ascribe to them a most important role in the treatment. Let aside the question if this importance be an etiological one, that's out of joint here, it is rather pragmatical.
Your remarks on the esteem ψα is enjoying from afar in England, made me laugh heartily; you are quite right.
In a few days I will have the pleasure of talking with you upon more topics. Dont forget: it is Bayerisch. Hof and we hope to arrive Friday 5th in the evening (9h). I will bring a letter from Pfister with me which will strike you dumb, an “document humain”.
I received a good paper “on ΨA” by one Becker of Milwaukee.1 The first papers of the newcomers seem always pretty good, now let us wait, what the man may write two years later.
Au revoir
yours
Freud