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Zürich,
16.11.1928
… I have been very impressed at the attitude of the International Society's journal in the debate on The Future of an Illusion. Such non-partisanship is very creditable. If our opponents always tell us that analysts are pettier and more spiteful, more intolerant and more fanatical, than the unanalysed, this debate refutes them. To me the tussle with you has been stimulating and helpful. Let me again thank you cordially for your kindness….
As you have been kind enough to deal with my questions and diminish my ignorance, I am taking the liberty of again putting a question to you. In your Three Essays on the Theory on Sexuality (v, 41), you talk of qualityless instincts which receive their specific characteristics only from their somatic sources and aims. Are these specific characteristics still unconscious as pertaining to the id? The qualityless instincts seem to me to be very important in establishing the organic unity of the individual and avoiding the impression that you think of this as being put together like a mosaic.
My other question concerns technique. When one returns to interpretations one has given, one continually finds that under the influence of the resistance the patient's memory has