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16 November 1924
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Jones,
I am pleased to hear that you are in agreement with the changes in the Verlag and Zeitschrift. I hope you are in regular contact with Berlin, and this arrangement is good, for I see myself that not much can be done with Vienna.
The first volume of the Collection has arrived. Very nice! And respectable! My only reservation, that these outdated works are not a good introduction for the English public, is offset by the news that the second volume will follow in a few weeks. Then, it is to be hoped, also the case histories, to which most weight is attached. I see that you have achieved your aim of establishing a secure position for the psychoanalytic literature in England, and I congratulate you on the result which I had almost ceased to hope for.
You must not take Mr. Farrow for a fool. I know him through Tansley and from a personal conversation. He is an odd man, but a very able, “shrewd”1 one, who had no luck with two analysts and has since then undertaken a self-analysis and is coming up with quite serious findings2. To be sure he is a bit of a grumbler, but both analysts (near you) really made technical mistakes with him.
The Rank affair is now coming to an end. Rado arrived today to relieve him of business duties. You must not think that the affair affected me very deeply or will have long after-effects. That is perhaps surprising when one considers the role Rank has played in my life during the last decade and a half. But I know of three explanations for my feeling of indifference. First, it may be a consequence of old age which no longer takes losses so much to heart. Second, I tell myself that the relationship has in these fifteen years amortized itself, as it were; it is not the same thing if a person breaks faith after two or three years, or only after having rendered excellent service for so long. Third, and “last [but] not least,”3 perhaps I am so unperturbed because I feel in absolutely no way to blame fo