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[Göttingen, after 4 October 1918]
Dear Professor,
I am writing today only to thank you very much for letting me know so quickly about the outcome of the congress. Yes, that was the way it had to go: namely, via the official world, and this way was opened by the psycho-analysis of the war neuroses. The next step ought to be an appropriate lectureship* in Berlin under Dr. Abraham! I was of course terribly sorry that I was not able to be present, but it is doubtful whether I would ever have been able to manage Breslau. I have written to both Dr. Abraham and Dr. Ferenczi to ask if there were any possibility of my being able to read the papers here. As purely scientific publications could they not be sent to me without censorship difficulties? As the Journal is now so slow in coming, I should otherwise be entirely cut off from these things. Perhaps it might be possible. Moreover, no doubt much will now be altered in the world, and it will soon be easier to communicate more quickly both in writing and in person. Would that you could have your sons with you again and be rid of all anxiety on their behalf! Then you would be able to begin the winter in the peace and joy of which you have so long been deprived. Meanwhile I am even more cruelly cut off from my relatives in Russia than during the war, and they in turn are cut off from their many sons (all officers), who may be shot at any moment without there being any war.
Warmest greetings from your
Lou Andreas