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LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
Dr. Robert Fliess is entirely correct in his statement (This QUARTERLY, XXIV, 1955, p. 329) that Freud and he used the word 'physiological' and not 'biological'. I regret that anyone might infer from this that his quotation from Freud was inaccurate. As a matter of fact, I used the word 'biological' in private correspondence with Dr. Fliess, and it probably slipped in for this reason. In the passage in question, I did not mean to quote verbatim either Freud or Dr. Fliess, but only to paraphrase the matter in a few words. As to my point of view about the wish to sleep, this has been restated in several papers that have appeared since Dr. Fliess's review, The Revival of Interest in the Dream, which relied on my writings from 1946 to 1950.