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Göttingen, 12.ix.1918
Dear Professor,
I have not yet thanked you for your letter, but ever since I learnt what good things were in store for your followers in Breslau108 I have been looking forward to the opportunity to talk with you in person. It is precisely the private character of this congress which will ensure that it is productive; for however important the exchange of ideas with the members as a body might be, this would lead all too easily to the sort of discussions in which for lack of time individual differences would prove detrimental to fruitful progress. I hope that you and your daughter and Dr. Ferenczi will return home fresh and well and that you will be spared anxiety about any of your sons.
Friends of ours have just moved to Breslau from Berlin (August Endell,109 who has been appointed Director of the Academy of Art in place of the late H. Paetzold) and so I shall probably stay on somewhat longer there.
Looking forward very much to seeing you again,
Yours,
Lou Andreas
The Fifth International Psycho-Analytical Congress had been arranged to take place in Breslau on 21 and 22 September 1918. But, as Karl Abraham informed Lou A.-S. on 15 September, since the Austro-Hungarian doctors on military service had not received permission to travel to Germany and for this reason a large part of the lectures, especially those on war neuroses, would have had to be cancelled, the Congress was transferred to Budapest, where it took place on 28 and 29 September. Lou A.-S. was prevented from attending by her husband's illness. The Budapest Congress formed the high point of Freud's recognition by state and society.
August Endell, 1871-1925, was one of the founders of the Jugendstil; he had been a close friend of Lou A.-S.'s since 1896. Cp. Lebensrückblick, p. 138.