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Mt. Carmel
27 Feb. 39
Dear Father Freud,
It would have been wrong if you had concealed from me what you are having to endure once again. In spite of everything at this time I have felt deeply and happily immured in your atmosphere! For I have discovered, and derived a certain consolation from the discovery, that the explanation of the pile of ruins on which we and the dictators now live like rats, is to be found in your work—in your Civilisation and its Discontents. Your ideas alone explain the hatred and