Carl Jung: What a watery brew Ellis has concocted!
Dear Professor Freud, 23 June 1911
Naturally the time after the Congress would suit me just as well, I only thought that if you came before you could stay here a bit longer.
I gather from your letter that you could come before the Congress, minus your wife, but we were so looking forward to having you both under our roof that I wish you would persuade your wife to come along after all if she possibly can.
Whether after or before the Congress is all the same to me. So please decide just as suits you best.
Have you seen Havelock Ellis’s book on dreams?
Won’t you do a critical review for the Jahrbuch?
What a watery brew Ellis has concocted!
Just what is needed to make everything unclear.
You are probably right about Honegger.
Although it may be true that the fantasy systems in D. pI. exhibit parallels with the daydreams of hysterical patients, it is certain from the start that by no means all cases possess such a system, or at least they do not have it at their disposal.
That it is not of great therapeutic importance to get patients to produce their latent fantasies seems to me a very dubious proposition.
The unconscious fantasies contain a whole lot of relevant material, and bring the inside to the outside as nothing else can, so that I see a faint hope of getting at even the “inaccessible” cases by this means.
These days my interest turns more and more to ucs. fantasy, and it is quite possible that I’m attaching too great hopes to these excavations,
Des. fantasy is an amazing witches’ cauldron:
“Formation, transformation,
Eternal Mind’s eternal recreation.
Thronged round with images of things to be,
They see you not, shadows are all they see.”
This is the matrix of the mind, as the little great-grandfather correctly saw, I hope something good comes out of it.
Kindest regards,
JUNG ~Carl Jung, Freud/Jung Letters, Vol. 1, Pages 430-431
International Psychoanalytic Congress. Photograph, 1911.
Front row left to right: 1) Poul Bjerre 2) Eugen Bleuler 3) Maria Moltzer 4) Maria Gincburg 5) Cindy Lou Andreas-Salomé 6) Beatrice M. Hinkle 7) Emma Jung 8) M. von Stack 9) Toni Wolff 10) Martha Boeddinghaus 11) Franz Riklin;
Second row, left to right: 1) Otto Rank 2) Ludwig Binswanger 3) O. [Oskar?] Rothenhäusler 4) Isidor Sadger 5) Oskar Pfister 6) Sándor Ferenczi 7)
Sigmund Freud 8) Carl Gustav Jung 9) Karl Abraham 10) unknown 11) W. Wittenberg 12) James J. Putnam 13) Ernest Jones 14) Wilhelm Stekel;
Third row, left to right: 1) Jan Nelken 2) Ludwig Jekels 3) Max Eitingon 4)
Leonhard Seif 5) Karl Landauer 6) A. Stegmann 7) unknown 8) unknown 9) Guido Brecher 10) Alfred von Winterstein 11) Johannes Jaroslaw Marcinowski;
Fourth row: 1) Rudolf Foerster 2) unknown 3) Abraham Arden Brill 4) Alphonse Maeder 5) Jan Egbert Gustaaf van Emden 6) Paul Federn 7) unknown 8) unknown 9) Adolf Keller;
Fifth row: 1) Eduard Hitschmann 2) unknown 3) unknown 4) unknown
Date 21 September 1911
~Lewis
