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25 September 1925
Semmering
Dear Jones,
I am sorry that my absence at the Homburg Congress disappointed you, but I have the impression that I prepared you for this repeatedly. Perhaps I was not explicit enough. For a long time I had hoped that my condition would improve sufficiently to make it possible for me yet to attend the Congress; but I have long since realized that I am not equal to the tasks there. Whenever you come to Vienna, be it Christmas or Easter, you will be welcome and can see for yourself that I neither overestimate nor underestimate the extent of my capabilities.
I thank you for giving me your impressions of the Congress, which correspond broadly with those from another quarter. The attempts to keep in touch with the American group are certainly laudable. We also readily concede that the acceptance of Miss Newton in Vienna was an infringement of our own rules. But the demands of the Americans seem to me to go really too far and are dictated too much by narrow-minded, egotistical considerations. Their position is also incorrect in that they resist lay analysis altogether instead of making the thorough training of both lay-people and doctors the crucial point. Of course they cannot demand more from their laypeople, since they cannot make the funds available to anyone for training in analysis. On the question of lay analysis I did not keep my decided opposition a secret from the Americans.
I hope that the work which I will start in about a week will not be taxing for me. I will endeavor to keep it within certain limits. You are, of course, apprised of my latest publications. A little booklet, “Hemmung, Symptom und Angst,”1 is to go to the printer at Christmas. It is good to hear that you are content with the Londoners and are looking confidently forward to the work of the next few years. Personally I am looking forward to the fourth volume of the Collected Papers, which I may expect soon. I have been invited by the Encyclopaedia Britannica to write an a