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Imago
21 February 1914
Vienna
Dear Jones,
I had no special motive to give that famous warning just at the time of my last letter. Only pouring out my mind to you I found this preoccupation amongst the contents of the same and offered it you. I am very glad of your answer.
Loe has since written to you I know, so I have no fresh news to give you but I soon will have when she is able to undergo an examination by the urologist. The behaviour of the young couple is very nice. As far as I can guess much of the future arrangements depends on the condition of kidney to be revealed next week.
I enclose the cuts from the British Medical Journal which interested me highly and also the passage of Wells, about which you can easily build a note for the Varia of your Journal the Zeitschrift. I find Wells is missing both points: the killing of the father and the origin of the taboos, but as a piece of scientific divination it may pass.1
I have now finished the historic and historical Beiträge.2 Pretty sharp they are and I hope not tedious. The sheets (70 pages!) are now with Ferenczi, will travel on to Abraham, from there to the printer here and you shall get the first proofs coming out. I am afraid of exposing the manuscript to more travelling by land and sea. It will be time to wait for your remarks and proposals.
You are overrating that pig, Stekel by sharing his supposition about Sadger. Jung simply had no other contribution from Vienna and would have accepted any other. If you take my advice you will not mind his critics on your papers.
The great event of last days is the Rectoralsrede [rector's address] of Jelgersma (Leiden) on Dream-analysis,3 his letter to me and his brochure, about which, I am sure, you have heard enough by this time. It is the first official acknowledgment from an university teacher. (14 years!)
I am ready for attacking to-morrow the Narcissm.4