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432A
Berlin-Grünewald
26 February 1924
Dear Professor,
I can scarcely tell you how much gratification your second letter gave me. Since I see that you are prepared to listen to criticisms even though they go beyond your own and concern persons who are particularly close to you, I begin once again to hope for a solution of the difficulties. Your words regarding the preservation of the Committee accord fully with my own ideas and intentions, and I therefore await further developments with somewhat greater confidence.
You, dear Professor, would like to know what dangers I mean. If I tell you, you may well shake your head and refuse to listen further to me. But it is no longer possible for me to keep them back, and I shall therefore state briefly what I intend to put before our meeting, giving full and detailed reasons for my opinion.
—After very careful study, I must see in the Entwicklungsziele as well as in the Trauma der Geburt manifestations of a scientific regression that correspond, down to the smallest detail, with the symptoms of Jung's renunciation of Ψα.
This was not easy to say. All the more glad I am to be able to add that I am not blind to the differences in personality: Sándor and Otto, with all their pleasant qualities, on the one side; Jung's deceitfulness and brutality on the other—I have by no means overlooked these. This must not prevent me, however, from stating that their new publications are a repetition of the Jung case, which I was initially loath to believe myself. This is the one great danger I can see! Two of our best members are in danger of straying from Ψα and will therefore be lost to Ψα. However, their turning away from what we have up to now called Ψα method is closely connected with the signs of disintegration in the Committee, and this disintegration represents the second danger. The third one is the damaging effect on the Ψα movement to be expected from the new books.
Before I continue, I must ask your forgiveness, dear Professor, if I have