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5 [December] 19121 Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Dr. Jung,
You musn't fear that I take your “new style” amiss. I hold that in relations between analysts as in analysis itself every form of frankness is permissible. I too-have been disturbed for some time by the abuse of ΨA to which you refer, that is, in polemics, especially against new ideas. I do not know if there is any way of preventing this entirely; for the present I can only suggest a household remedy: let each of us pay more attention to his own than to his neighbour's neurosis.
Forgive me if I reverse the ratio observed in your letter and devote more space to practical matters, which at least are easier to deal with in a letter. I am referring to the Bergmann matter, in regard to which I cannot conceal a certain dissatisfaction. Your information sounds as if it came from another planet; I cannot fit the pieces together or draw any inference about the situation of the new Zeitschrift. Nor can I make a proposal for defraying any loss to the Association wholly or in part, until I know for what I should be making reparation. Finally, it is hard for me to understand or justify your own bias in the matter.
You yourself have no doubt become familiar while in America with the principle that a man who is out for profit must take a good look at the persons and conditions on which his chances of profit depend. And similarly in Europe ignorance is no excuse for a businessman. I have less sympathy than you with Bergmann; if he has been misled by Stekel, that is his affair. I too have suffered enough at his hands.
If Bergmann believes he did not release me from my position in his letter, he has a very low opinion of his own statements. I am enclosing this letter as well as his previous one. He definitely accepts my notice of resignation and promises to announce it in the next issue of the Zentralblatt. And now he denies that he has let me out! If he thought I was bound by contract to stay on until the end of the year, th