To Bournemouth

My darling,

… I wanted badly to do some serious psychoanalytic work but I found myself unbelievably shy of starting it. I really have become terribly out of the way of reading it, not that I ever did much in that way at any time. There are few psychoanalytic writers who write clearly and those, except Freud, are not always the best psychoanalysts. Still, one ought I think constantly to revise and keep what has been written, by a few of the best at least, well in mind. How this is to be done, with the general reading that I also consider essential, no one knows.