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19 January 1914
69 Portland Court, London
Dear Professor Freud,
I note that Dresden is the place to vote for if we get the opportunity. As our group cannot be legally incorporated into the Vereinigung until the Congress accepts it I suppose we now have no vote, but I am asking Eder, the secretary, who stands better with Jung than I do, to write to Jung
demanding one. Still I suppose the voting will be “crossed”, and will not represent the relative strength of the two parties.
My attitude on the two occasions does not seem to me so inconsistent as it has apparently struck you. Both times I wish for a dissolution if it can be safely engineered, but I see a great difference in a minority of the groups trying to force it at a time when nothing is happening, and the matter to be opened tentatively now when the other side opens the question of the Congress. Still I am impressed by your point about the reviews producing a situation that would bring things to a head more inevitably than any suggestion at the present time.
I am sorry to hear about Loe's condition, but suppose it is partly due to her state of mind while expecting Herbert Jones. I am eager to hear what will be the outcome of his visit, whether they are coming to London, etc., and am dependent on you for my news, since she does not write to me at present.
As to the very vague subject of my own marrying, I will certainly take your advice about careful reflection and choice, advice which I find both wise and necessary. It has, to be sure, come into my thoughts at various times of late, which is rather natural under the circumstances (settling down, etc.), but I realise that I should become more “fertig” [accomplished] with the analysis of my own mental workings before venturing to think of throwing in my lot with that of someone else.
You ask me about Moses. One reason why I hope you will sign it is that, whether you do or not, the authorship will be sufficiently evident from the style and contents, and if you do n