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[about 10 July 1931]
[Vienna] XVIII, Khevenhüllerstr. 6
Dear Lou
I am writing to you again before I get your reply, for I have now read your essay.
It has certainly not often happened that I have admired a psycho-analytic work instead of criticizing it, but this time I can't help doing so. It is the finest thing of yours I have read, an involuntary proof of your superiority over all of us—in accord with the heights from which you descended to us. It is a true synthesis, not the nonsensical therapeutic synthesis of our opponents, but a true scientific one, in which one can have confidence that it can transform back again into a living organism the collection of nerves, muscles, tendons and blood vessels into which the analytic knife