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Steiner, R. (1993). Introduction to The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones 1908-1939. The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones 1908-1939, xxi-l

Introduction to The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones 1908-1939

Riccardo Steiner

“Now for a great surprise: among the English contingent there was a young man from London, Dr Jones (a Celt from Wales!) who knows your writings very well and does psychoanalytic work himself. He will probably visit you later. He is very intelligent and could do a lot of good” (McGuire, 1974, p. 86). Jung wrote these words to Freud on 11 September 1907 from Zurich, on arriving home from the Premier Congrés International de Psychiatrie, de Neurologie, de Psychologie et de I'Assistance des Aliénés. Freud replied on 19 September from Rome, where he was holidaying, with a certain haughtiness, as if Jung's account went entirely without saying: “The Celt who surprised you is certainly not the only one; before the year is out we shall hear of unexpected supporters and you will acquire others at your flourishing school” (McGuire, 1974, p. 88).

Jones had been discussing with Jung the possibility of organizing a congress on psychoana

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