Differences between Adler and Freud began to emerge, however, and by 1911 they became so pronounced that Adler resigned as president of the society. After a nine-year association with Freud, the friendship crumbled, and the two men never saw each other again. Freud accused Adler of becoming famous by reducing psychoanalysis to the commonsense level of the layperson. About Adler, Freud said, “I have made a pygmy great” (Wittels, 1924, p. 225). History shows that Freud and Adler never had much in common, and it was probably a mistake for Adler to join the Freudians. Ernest Jones (1955) summarized Adler’s major disagreements with Freud: