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Freud, S. (1917). Letter from Sigmund Freud to Karl Abraham, December 26, 1917. The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Karl Abraham 1907-1925, 366-367

Letter from Sigmund Freud to Karl Abraham, December 26, 1917

Sigmund Freud

330F

Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
26 December 1917

Dear Friend,

I am afraid you may have concluded from my last letter that I was unwilling to write to Kraus and hence may be worrying that the promised letter would run aground on enigmatic obstacles. So let me reassure you by telling you that the letter has already gone off in perfect order.

It did certainly cost me some gnashing of teeth. There was one part of the complex against which one has to struggle, and another that overcame the struggling. The two parts were naturally anger at being in the position of having to ask a favour of the hostile world, and consideration

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that it might perhaps be useful to you. I hope that the latter may turn out to be correct.

Rank came to see me yesterday. He is now a prisoner of the editorial department of the Krakauer Zeitung and is in very low spirits.

If this letter reaches you in time for the New Year, may it bring you the end of exile and a new beginning of independent existence.

Cordially

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