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Berggasse 19,
Vienna IX,
24.1.1919
Dear Dr Pfister,
In view of your inquiry I reply by return of post. I think it very satisfactory that you are undertaking the analysis of O., and also hope that as a result you will revise your somewhat heretical views about the constitution and significance of the sex instinct.
My son Martin (Lieutenant, F.A.R. 4/3, Field Post Office 646) recently sent us a telegram from Genoa. Your offer is very kind, but I do not know what you can do for him or for us.
Rank, with whom I have discussed it all, will be writing to you direct about the publishing matter. He has himself been thinking of going to Switzerland if prospects of useful co-operation offer. Speaking generally, we need, not another psycho-analytic publishing house, whose interests would be purely commercial, but branches in non-German-speaking countries. We have resources sufficient to enable us to print everything that seems to us worth while, and no interest