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1003 Seestrasse, Küsnacht-Zürich,
19 February 1912
Dear Professor Freud,
Heartiest thanks for your two excellent articles. “The Dynamics of Transference”1 is of extraordinary value for the analyst. I have read it with pleasure and profit. So far as the concept of introversion2 is concerned, I consider it to be a universal phenomenon, though it has a special significance in Dem. praec. I say quite a lot about it in Part II of my work on libido, which by the way has taken on alarming proportions and despite my need to come to an end refuses to stop. Already I can predict the gloomy outcome: I shall see how much better I could have done it.
Our Society is blossoming like a rose since Bleuler left. The only result of the great newspaper feud is that ΨA is being endlessly discussed in public. It even appears in the carnival newspapers.
Excuse this brevity, but I am in a state of war.
Kind regards,
Most sincerely yours, JUNG
See above, 280 F n. 3. The other article cannot be identified, unless it was the brief “‘Gross ist die Diana der Epheser,’” Zentralblatt, II:3 (Dec. 1911) = “‘Great is the Diana of the Ephesians,’” SE XII.
In “Dynamics” ( SE XII, p. 102) occurs Freud's first use of this “appropriate” term, which Jung had introduced in “Konflikte der kindliche Seele” (1910; cf. CW 17, par. 13). Freud commented, “… some of Jung's remarks give the impression that he regards this introversion as something which is characteristic of dementia praecox and does not come into account in the same way in other neuroses.” Here Jung replies.