Letter from Sigmund Freud to Ernest Jones, July 22, 1914

22 July 1914
Karlsbad

My dear Jones,

I think it wise from Putnam to have chosen you for his confessor and your answer given in a truly analytic spirit is perhaps the best you could give. But let him try as much as he may, he will never avoid his own hobbies. If he would restrain himself to the saying that there is a striving for sublimation in some of the better individuals we could not contradict, as there is such a thing, but he will spoil that simple fact by mixing it up with some philosophical theory, Hegel's or Bergson's or the like. Yet I am glad he is honest and not likely to do something which is ambiguous.

Jungs abstract is remarkable for his manoeuvers to strike out repression, which I trust will find its place in your paper.1

I thank you very much for your kindness with my little daughter. Perhaps you know her not enough. She is the most gifted and accomplished of my children and a valuable character besides. Full of interest for learning, se[e]ing sights and getting to understand the world. She does not claim to be treated as a woman, being still far away from sexual longings and rather refusing man. There is an outspoken understanding between me and her that she should not consider marriage or the preliminaries before she gets 2 or 3 years older. I dont think she will break the treaty.2

You will hear or have heard from Abraham that Maeder has nearly proclaimed the exit of the Zürich group; he bade him to wait for something to be printed at Zürich, most likely a pathetic manifesto in answer of my