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Constance, 22 July 1914
100B
Dear Professor Freud,
You will have heard that the Zurich group has decided to withdraw from the International Psychoanalytic Association by a vote of 15 to 1.1 Whether that one vote was mine I do not know because I was not present at that particular meeting, although I did tell Maeder over the telephone beforehand that I would vote against a separation. I can
accept neither the latent nor the manifest reasons for a break. And I find it particularly amusing that the frightful spectre of the threat to independent research was used as a scapegoat even here. I cannot join, or make further contributions to, the new independent association and am willing to join the Vienna or Berlin group if you advise me to do so; I don't know how you see the future standing of the International Association yourself, now that Jung has so belied your hopes. Your history of the analytic movement is being recognised and admired, especially by independent minds.
With kind regards,
Ever yours, [L. Binswanger]