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Dear Friends,
The Budapest letter has not arrived for the second time in succession.
Have the London letters reached Budapest?
At a meeting this week of the Executive Committee, of which I am a member, of the International Congress of Psychology, which is to be held at Oxford on July 27th, I arranged that one of the six Germans to be specially invited will be our friend Abraham2 (Professor had already indicated to me his unwillingness to come).
As there is no other news from here this time, I am adding a few points of scientific interest.
In regard to the Plato-Freud theory of sex, I do not think it has been noted that the word sex itself etymologically signifies »division« (from secare = to cut).
I was greatly interested in Abraham's paper on Anal-Erotism, the proofs of which recently reached me.3 Re the question of the tendency to reversal I might relate the following: Our leading war journalist (rather like Captain Persius4 of Berlin) wrote a long article every week of the war without exception. I read them all and on only one occasion out of the two hundred and thirty was there any exception to the rule that the words East and West were transposed, often several times in the same article. He is well-known to be a hard drinker, and from the analysis of a patient who was a