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In these years was launched what was called the ‘Psycho-Analytical Movement’—not a very happy phrase, but one employed by friends and foes alike. They were distressing years for Freud and it was during them that he looked back at what seemed then, through rosy spectacles, the halcyon years of ‘splendid isolation’. The enjoyment of the increasing success and recognition was greatly impaired by the sinister signs of growing dissension among valued adherents, a topic that demands a chapter to itself. Freud was immensely troubled and also bewildered by the insoluble problems this gave rise to and the perplexity of coping with them. We shall, however, confine ourselves here to the brighter side of the story, the gradual diffusion of the new ideas that naturally meant so much to Freud.
Freud's thoughts were at this time moving in the direction of a wider organization than a local Society. He wrote to Jung saying he was playing with the idea of getting his supporters to join ‘some larger group working for a practical ideal’.1 An apothecary called Knapp from Berne had called on him and tried to enlist his support for an ‘International Fraternity for Ethics and Culture’ which he had just founded and of which Forel was the President. Freud advised him to discuss the matter with Jung and asked Jung's opinion about the advisability of joining it. He wrote: ‘What attracted me was the practical, aggressive as much as protective, feature of the programme: the obligation to fight directly against the authority of the State and the Church in cases where they are committing