Zürich,
14.2.1924

… The book by Ferenczi and Rank1 has given me a lot of hard nuts to crack. That psycho-analysis is leading to a new outlook on life I cannot and will not admit. All analysis can do is make valuable contributions to building up such an outlook. The latter depends on synthesis, and one must beware of overloading the psycho-analytical apple-cart. You yourself have always taught that what matters is not remembering but reliving, in that you have always insisted that memory is not sufficient, but that it must be charged with affect. It is exaggerated to say that after the ideal treatment one would never hear of the patient again. It is only human that gratitude, even if not effusive gratitude, should remain; that does not involve any sacrifice of liberty….