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[Göttingen] 26.vi.1922
Dear Professor,
Anna's night letter has just reached me with the news that I have really and truly become a full member of the Vienna Psycho-Analytical Society: as in a dream, so to speak, and as otherwise only happens in childhood, when one suddenly finds lying on one's bed the present one has wished for in one's dream. For what Daughter-Anna succeeded in reality in doing, i.e., in giving the lecture required for membership, I should never have achieved successfully. And so I feel myself, grateful and quite unashamed, to have been transported by her to the place where I have from the beginning felt more at home than anywhere else. I know that one had to snap one's fingers at all geographical considerations in order to do this and I thank you from my heart for this breach of the rules!
As I am writing this, Dr. Rank's official confirmation has arrived. Shortly before this he wrote to me about the material for ‘Early Knowledge in Children’,148 which I have now looked through. Here Daughter-Anna has again scored a direct hit, in that she was responsible for copying out the relevant quotations from your