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JUNG, Carl Gustav (1875-1961). A collection of eleven autograph letters signed, three autograph postcards signed and one typewritten letter signed to Ernest Jones, Burghölzli and Ksnacht-Zurich, 23 November 1907 - 5 December 1913, and 19 December 1953, and one autograph letter signed and two autograph postcards signed to Sandor Ferenczi, 31 October and 19 November 1910 and 10 November 1913, in English (10 letters) and in German (3 letters and 5 postcards), together approximately 20 pages, 4to, and 6 pages, 8vo, in autograph and one typewritten page, 8vo, 2 autograph envelopes (slight wear in outer margins, small tears in blank lower margin of letter of 23.11.1907, stains on verso of letter of 5.12.1912); and a letter by Jung's secretary ('Schwester Malther') to 'Sehr Verehrter Herr Professor' (Freud?). The letters to Jones, which are unpublished, span the period of Jung's admiration for Freud, the development of the international psychoanalytic movement, his changing views and the break with Freud. The earlier ones (the first welcoming Jones's visit to Burghölzli, 'I hope we will have many interesting discussions') are enthusiastic, 'That would really be very nice if you could establish a Freuds (sic) society in London. The suggestive power of an assemblance (sic) is as you know enormous .... During the analysis [of a Russian student] many symbolic things happened .... You see, one instance more of the truth of Freud's deductions'. He writes of the importance of language, 'we have carefully to avoid "learned" terms because we have to educate and familiarise these people with these psychological mechanisms and to demonstrate their general importance .... All Freud's mechanisms are not at all "specifique" for any mental disease: they are in (sic) contrary common to both normals and abnormals'. He comments on Jones's own papers ('your clever analysis and your very bright views about the "differentialdiagnose") and discusses American colleagues. Morton Prince's rejection of articles by Brill and Abraham 'on grounds of "sexual matters"' prompts the rejection 'I think that by openly announcing certain things one cuts off the branch on which culture is sitting .... You do not get far with your analyses if you confront people with all sexual symbols immediately'. The foundation in 1910 of the International Psychoanalytische Vereinigung signifies 'a very great progress in movement'. In two letters (15 and 20 November 1912) Jung announces his break with Freud and seeks to justify his hostility to him and his recent 'neglect' of Jones, 'I was simply too much "introverted" and devoted to my work .... Freud will never agree with any change in his doctrine. He is convinced that I am thinking under the domination of a father complex against him and that all is a complex nonsens (sic) .... If I go on in science I have to go on my own path. He already ceased being my friend understanding my whole work as a personal resistance against him and sexuality'. He cannot participate in Freud's new journal (the International Zeitschrift ) and if his name is not in it 'under these circumstances I have to give up the presidentship'. Released from the 'infantile advantages of being a son', Jung repeats his wish to cooperate with Jones (whose caustic pencilled annotation on the letter reads 'Methinks the lady does protest too much'). In 1913, Jung refers to his 'somewhat altered views' as 'working hypotheses and not ... eternal truths'. A letter and a postcard, marked respectively 'Please return' and 'Please tear up', explain his resignation as editor of the Jahrbuch on account of Freud's doubts of his 'bona fides', complain of Ferenczi's abandonment of the principle of 'auditur et altera pars', and admit his own 'decidedly unhappy' isolation from the Viennese school. In a final card Jung refuses to write for the Zeitschrift , 'If people don't understand what I have said they may work until they begin to understand, if not - tant pis pour eux '. The let