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Dear Friends:
I sympathise with Ferenczi's sufferings about the interval between letters, being like him an isolated member, and wish to propose a slight modification, namely that we write every second Sunday. Would Rank be able to manage this?
My spare time of the past fortnight has been taken up with the complications of 45 New Cavendish St, where we had left our furniture in return for using it as a postal address. The tenant is now leaving and claimed the furniture as his own. He practised every form of chicanery and bluff, but we managed to get the furniture, though it meant many interviews with agents, lawyers, caretakers, removers, etc. Such things seem part of the lot of a psychoanalyst nowadays, and certainly diversifies his work. At present the Post Office forwards the letters to me, but we must soon get a new registered address.
It looks as if the British Association is going to accept the programme I suggested for the September meeting at Hull and it has a chance of being a highly important event for Psa in this country. The plan is that there be four speakers, the subject being infantile sexuality, and the aim being to concentrate on the one question of proving this. I am to open with a general exposition, summarising all the reasons and arguments why we adhere to this conception, and then the others will produce the evidence in detail: Bryan on the clinical side (neuroses and infantile sexuality), Barbara Low direct observation of children, choosing the best examples from the literature, and Flügel on the comparative side, atavistic aspects of inf. sex., primitive man, savage theories, biology (cloaca, etc.). The total ought be make some impression and might be worth while reproducing in book form if only it is carried out well.
London is at present in the grip of a Coué craze, of autosuggestion. He is the lion of society, his meetings are too crowded to get into, there are literally thousands of patients, and they have started a Coué Institute. I do not k