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13 September 1913
13 Princes Street
Cavendish Square, London
Dear Professor Freud,
My thoughts are very much with you in the splendid city, recuperating in that sublime atmosphere from the passing pettinesses of a few days ago.
Still, on looking back, I think we have every reason to be satisfied with the events. We achieved the main object of bringing some light into the muddled confusion of the Zurich people, and also demonstrated that there was more vital activity in the Vienna school than they seemed to imagine. Our next task will be to go on with the clarification, and define the Zurich point of view more sharply, a task which they themselves should have fulfilled. We shall not be able to devote ourselves freely to the progress of ψα until we have shaken these impediments off. It must be many years since you last had to defend in a public meeting the elementary principles of ψα and I hope it gratified you to see that this time you had an active bodyguard to support you.
I want to thank you again for your personal kindness to me. To it I owe in a great measure the confidence I felt at the congress, also partly to the greater freedom from Angst resulting from my analysis, and partly to the considerable experience I have already had of such discussions.
I enclose a “petit document humain” from Putnam, which you might send on to Ferenczi, as I think it will interest him also. The passages I have marked with a cross need no comment. His tough stomach unhesitatingly rejects Jung's mish-mash, inspite of the sprinkling of philosophy and ethics which might have deceived Putnam's palate. He also sends me a dream of his own relating to incest with his daughter, thus confirming your surmise about the Griselda paper.1
Eder and I have arranged to found a London group next month, and expect to have perhaps a dozen members with the British members of the American Assoc. (Berkeley-Hill, etc.). In order not to leave the selection of new members to the society we will arrange that a