ABSTRACT
The death of Ernest Jones has prime significance for the whole of the psycho-analytic world. For some individual members, especially those whose analytic roots reach down to the decade following the First World War, Jones's death means a great personal loss. Ideas were perhaps more important to Jones than anything else, and they had to stand the test. The amount of loving care that Jones would spend on manuscripts sent him by colleagues from all over the world was amazing; also he was ready to praise when he felt he could honestly do so. By the time Jones himself appears in his biography of S. Freud he has already been through a great deal. Ernest Jones will continue to be important to all those in future generations who will benefit directly from the stand that he took on behalf of Freud's claim that human nature can be studied scientifically; the whole of human nature without exception.
