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1003 Seestrasse, Küsnach-Zürich,
Dear Professor Freud, 24 May 19111
A few words in haste! I enclose a letter from Jones from which you can see the present situation in America.2 There's probably nothing for it but to try to get Brill to affiliate the New York Society with this more central organization. There will have to be sacrifices on both sides. This time I think Brill has put his foot in it with his intransigent behaviour. I'd be very grateful for good advice and also for information about the date of the Congress. Berlin votes for Sept. 21/22. So do I and I will see that Zürich does the same. Then the date you prefer will be a certainty.
With many kind regards.
Most sincerely yours, JUNG
“In May 1911,” Jones states (II, p. 162/143), “Jung told Freud he regarded the term libido merely as a designation of general tension.” But such a statement is not to be found in Jung's letters during this month. Jones probably intended to cite Jung's letters of May 1912, q.v.
On the initiative chiefly of Jones, the American Psychoanalytic Association was founded 9 May 11 in Baltimore, prior to the annual meetings of the American Psychopathological Association and the American Neurological Association. The eight founding members included Putnam (who was elected president), Burrow, Jones (secretary), and Young (see above, 173 J n. 3). See Hale, Freud and the Americans, pp. 317f; “The American Psycho-Analytical Association,” Journal of Abnormal Psychology, VI (Oct.-Nov. 1911); and Jones, II, p. 98/87. For Brill's founding of the separate New York Society, see above, 238 F.