ABSTRACT
British psychoanalysis has had a distinguished history. Jones, for all his many flaws, deserves the credit for making a functioning organization of analysts in Britain. Of course, that means also that sometimes Jones kept out brilliant people whom he disliked, especially men with medical degrees; he felt far more at home with female physicians and lay analysts, although he could be curiously obedient to certain women analysts. Jones was stuck with the fact that many of those interested in Freud’s work were Cambridge intellectuals; once Freud had accepted people like James and Alix Strachey for personal analyses, Jones could do nothing to block them from becoming full members of his society. Jones, a Welsh outsider, might envy superior social connections, but he was a good enough politician to ride out his many practical problems.
