D r.  A.  A. B r i l l Telephone 8101 Riverside Office hours
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Oct 23. 08

My dear Professor.

I was very pleased to get your letter and am glad to hear that everything is again as of yore.  The same day that your letter reached me I got a telephone from Parker.  I had an interview with him, he wanted to know whether I will translate your book and whether I am willing to translate the article which you are to write for him.  To both of which I readily assented.  Now a few words regarding this movement.  Parker is no physician nor is he a psychologist, he is an instructor of English in Columbia and an editor of a periodical.  There is at present a wave of psychotherapy in our country, presumably brought from the continent, and he conceived the idea of forming this "Course of reading", "Combining sound psychology, sound medicine and sound religion."  The movement as you see from the quotation is a semi religious one.  When you wrote to me the first time I thought that Parker was a certain Dr. Parker whom I know and he I was sure had nothing to do with Columbia.  Well, to tell you the truth I was very surprised to see the men that are taking part in this movement and I am not the only one who shares that

feeling here.  But I have heard that some of our foremost neurologists and psychologists are in it.  I spoke to one of the men and he expressed himself as follows "Rather then [sic] have quacks get into it we rather do it."  This I believe is the trend of opinion.  Peterson is also in it and I understand that Jung has been asked to write on the subconscious.  This at the suggestion of Peterson.  He also asked me to write something for him and knowing that I am your disciple he suggested that it should not contain anything sexual.  On further conversation I elicited that he has been warned against your sexual ideas and this by Morton Prince.  He (Prince) certainly entertains a number of antipathies against things sexual.  I promised to show him a chapter from the book so that he can see whether it is appropriate for publication into his library but I can't see how he can be reconciled to the sexual ideas in it.  I heard from Jones and expect to see him soon.  I am constantly working on your translation and will soon have some finished.  There is such a great misconception about your ideas among some that your works will certainly be of great benefit.  My analysis will appear within a few days and I will send you a reprint.  I have a number of nice cases.  I am analysing 3 hysterias - men - and one Zwangsneurose.  There is absolutely no doubt in my mind about the theories of Infantil Sexualität.  In every one of the three hysterias passive sexual traumas at periods ranging from 4-7 were found and in the Zwangsneurose there is a trauma characterized by activity and distinct relishing of libido at age of 5.  Furthermore I examined a woman suffering from a typical Zwangsneurose and in her the sexual trauma was very typical.  Both my wife and I send our kindest regards to yourself and family

cordially Brill