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184F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
9 November 1913
Dear Friend,
Events have followed each other so rapidly that a great deal of what you suggest no longer applies. Under the impact of your letter and a very similar one from Jones, Rank and Sachs have agreed to a postponement of the operation against the Association, and Ferenczi, who has
been the hothead in the whole business, will no doubt agree to it too. You know that in these matters I gladly let myself be advised by friends, because since being taken in by Jung my confidence in my political judgement has greatly declined. I enclose Jones's letter.1
So the Jahrbuch has remained ours. Deuticke was simply over-hasty, he seems to have made no secret agreements, and had at first misunderstood me. I shall soon be sending you the detailed plan for the volume I should like to bring out on about 1 July, and shall myself take a substantial part in the work. I shall tell Hitschmann on Wednesday and ask him to get in touch with you. We shall all put our best efforts into making the new Jahrbuch a testimonial to what we are capable of, and you will automatically find yourself in an extremely influential position. True, the material benefit will be very slight.
I see already that the whole situation boils down to squeezing out of us everything that we have. There is the cause, and we shall sacrifice ourselves for it without complaint. C.C.!
At the same time the business with Brugsch has been cleared up in a not unpleasing way. He has released me from hy[steria] and agrees that I should contribute to the compilation a section on “The Ψα Theory of the Neuroses”, of the same length or a little more. That, however, throws good light on Kraus's reliability.
On the way back from Hamburg I propose to spend the afternoon (Sunday, 28 December, from midday to the night train) in Berlin, where we shall then discuss everything.
I send my heartfelt greetings to your whole family, and am delighted to be able to regard you officially as what you have a