Jung, C.G. (1906). Letter from C. G. Jung to Sigmund Freud, October 5, 1906.

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Jung, C.G. (1906). Letter from C. G. Jung to Sigmund Freud, October 5, 1906. The Freud/Jung Letters: The Correspondence Between Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung, 4-5

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C. G. Jung

2 J

Burghölzli-Zürich, 5 October 19061

Dear Professor Freud,2

Please accept my sincerest thanks for the present you kindly sent me. This collection of your various short papers3 should be most welcome to anyone who wishes to familiarize himself quickly and thoroughly with your mode of thought. It is to be hoped that your scientific following will continue to increase in the future in spite of the attacks which Aschaffenburg,4 amid the plaudits of the pundits, has made on your theory—one might almost say on you personally. The distressing thing about these attacks is that in my opinion Aschaffenburg fastens on externals, whereas the merits of your theory are to be found in the psychological realm of which modern psychiatrists and psychologists have somewhat too scanty a grasp. Recently I conducted a lively correspondence5 with Aschaffenburg about your theory and espoused this standpoint, with which you, Professor, may not be entirely in agreement. What

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