Editing Ernest Jones (section)

== Personal life ==

Jones's first serious relationship was with Loe Kann, a wealthy Dutch émigré referred to him in 1906 after she had become [[addiction|addicted]] to [[morphine]] during treatment for a serious kidney condition. Their relationship lasted until 1913. It ended with Kann in analysis with Freud and Jones, at Freud's behest, undergoing analysis with [[Sándor Ferenczi]].{{sfn|Jones|1959|pp=197–199}}

A tentative romance with Freud's daughter, [[Anna Freud|Anna]], did not survive the disapproval of her father. Before her visit to Britain in the autumn of 1914, which Jones chaperoned, Freud advised him: {{blockquote|She does not claim to be treated as a woman, being still far away from sexual longings and rather refusing man. There is an outspoken understanding between me and her that she should not consider marriage or the preliminaries before she gets 2 or 3 years older.{{sfn|Paskauskas|1993|p=294}}}}

In 1917, Jones married the Welsh musician [[Morfydd Llwyn Owen]]. They were holidaying in South Wales the following year when Morfydd became ill with acute [[appendicitis]]. Jones hoped to get his former colleague and brother-in-law, the leading surgeon [[Wilfred Trotter]], to operate but when this proved impossible emergency surgery was carried out at his father's Swansea home by a local surgeon, with [[chloroform]] administered as the anaesthetic.{{sfn|Maddox|2006|p=140}}<ref>Davies, T. G. (2018) "Marwolaeth Morfudd Llwyn Owen", ''Y Traethodydd'', vol. 173, no. 725, pp. 104-113.</ref> As Jones recounts: "after a few days [she] became delirious with a high temperature. We thought there was blood poisoning till I got Trotter from London. He at once recognized delayed chloroform poisoning ... We fought hard, and there were moments when we seemed to have succeeded, but it was too late."<ref>Jones, Ernest (1959) [1990]. ''Free Associations: Memories of a Psycho-Analyst''. London: Transaction Publishers. p. 245.</ref> Jones arranged for his wife to be buried in [[Oystermouth Cemetery]] on the outskirts of Swansea with her gravestone bearing an inscription from [[Goethe's Faust|Goethe's ''Faust'']]: ''Das Unbeschreibliche, hier ist's getan''.{{efn|The Goethe text translates as "Here the indescribable is done."}}{{sfn|Maddox|2006|pp=140–141}}

Following some inspired matchmaking by his Viennese colleagues, in 1919 Jones met and married Katherine Jokl, a Jewish economics graduate from Moravia. She had been at school in Vienna with Freud's daughters. They had four children in what proved to be a long and happy marriage, though both struggled to overcome the loss of their eldest child, Gwenith, at the age of 7, during the interwar influenza epidemic.{{sfn|Maddox|2006|pp=196–197}} Their son [[Mervyn Jones (writer)|Mervyn Jones]] became a writer.