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5 unusual facts about Ernest Jones


Girindrasekhar Bose

(with Ernest Jones and others) Glossary for the use of translators of psycho-analytic works, 1926

Freud was pleased that his ideas had spread to such a far-off land and asked Bose to write to Ernest Jones, then President of the International Psychoanalytic Association, for membership of that body.

Gustave Le Bon

Trotter's book, Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War forms the basis for the research of both Wilfred Bion and Ernest Jones who established what would be called group psychology.

History of narcissism

Ernest Jones tells us that 'at a meeting of the Vienna Psycho-Analytical Society on 10 November 1909 Freud had declared that narcissism was a necessary intermediate stage between auto-erotism and object-love'.

The Trauma of Birth

Both Karl Abraham and Ernest Jones expressed opposition to The Trauma of Birth, since they believed that it implicitly contradicted some of Freud's basic ideas.


The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud

The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud is a biography of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones, published in three volumes between 1953 and 1957, and in a one-volume edition abridged by Lionel Trilling and Steven Marcus in 1961.


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