ABSTRACT
Ernest Jones's political and strategic master-plan, of moving Anna Freud and his daughter to London, would have matured, at least as far as one can gather from his letters to Anna, during the early months of 1938, though his letters do not reveal much, apart from Freud's attitude towards the prospect of having to emigrate. This chapter presents an analysis of the term "Sorgenkinder" and "special Sorgenkinder", as in the case of T. Reik and E. Simmel. To return to the kind of "Sorge" that Jones and British Psycho-Analytical Society may have felt towards Freud, his daughter, and their circle of friends, one needs to turn to the correspondence contained in the Archives. The chapter illustrates the importance and implications of the rules for selection, which were applied not only in the case of Freud and his family and friends, but also in all cases which were based at times on political and ideological criteria with personal and unconscious reasons.
