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Dear Friends:
First let me express my personal sympathy with Ferenczi on the loss of such a valuable member and friend. Of the three most severe losses that Psa has yet suffered through death two have struck the Hungarian group directly. I enclose in the Berlin letter a letter to the Hungarian Society from the Central; if Abraham approves of it will he be good enough to sign it and post it.
In my urgent letter of January 11th I outlined the ambitious plan we have of forming a new company to conduct the Press, and asked for criticisms or approval before we proceeded. No mention was made of it in the answering Rundbriefen, but since then I have had a private letter from Rank saying that he intended writing to Rickman on the matter giving his agreement. So we shall proceed at once, as for several reasons the question is pressing.
There is no other news from here. Stimulated by a bad discussion on the subject of Auto-Suggestion at a recent meeting of the B. Psych. Soc., I am trying to compose a paper on it, but I am finding it very hard, for the topic leads to very obscure problems.2
I was extremely interested in Abraham's news of the Chinese translation, for from what we hear here of the Renaissance of thought in modern China I should judge it a country in which Psa would spread widely and rapidly; the Verlag must be awake to the possibilities, though we can hardly expect Rank to add a Chinese section to his other burdens at present! By the way, does not Herz-Kraft correspond rather to Libido than to Unconscious?
Budapest. I did not form my doubts about Eder solely on an intimate knowledge, but also on what I know from personal analysis, so I hope you will reserve your final judgement until you have seen more of him. He returns this week to Budapest.