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182F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
6 November 1913
Dear Friend,
My heartfelt thanks for your willingness. Jung obviously gave up the Jahrbuch only in order to gain sole control of it after my withdrawal. Deuticke1 is inclined towards him, and it is probable that he will succeed; at the present moment D. finds himself between two offers, the Jungian and ours, and he will shortly have to decide between them. If D. declines, we shall remember that Heller is very anxious indeed to have the modified Jahrbuch, and we shall probably do it with him.
An imprudence on my part which D. rapidly exploited encouraged his coming to an understanding with Jung. Relations between D. and J. have developed with uncanny speed.
On the second question, I know that all your misgivings are justified. On the other hand, however, there is something oppressive about the situation, and both affectively and practically it calls for a solution. Under the terms of the contract we can, for instance, do nothing if Zurich requires us to publish all its rubbish in the Korrespondenzblatt,2 or to publish special papers. Formally the difficulties are slight. The passage in the rules which says that the purpose of the Society is the cultivation of Freudian Ψα gives us a smooth handle to call for its dissolution, as a statement by me that the Zurichers do not do this cannot reasonably be set aside. Of course J. would make difficulties nevertheless. In the event of the secession of our three groups we should be obliged to found a counter-organization, and our groups would lose