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Berggasse 19,
Vienna IX,
25.11.1934
Dear Dr Pfister,
Your little book which has now reached me in its new linguistic guise has had a fine career, and has certainly done good work for analysis at each of its stopping-places. I am delighted at all your successes. That you should be such a convinced analyst and at the same time a clerical gentleman is one of the contradictions that make life so interesting.
I have heard from all quarters that the Lucerne congress left behind a strong impression of firm cohesion among analysts. Perhaps the times immediately ahead will put the organisation to the test. Things are so bad everywhere in the world, why should analysis have it any easier? Of course