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Dear Friends,
After seeing the correspondence with the Swiss, there is nothing to say except to compliment Abraham on the admirable combination of tact and firmness he showed in the affair. I presume that the matter should come before the business meeting of the Congress, either in the Form of an interpolation from the Swiss or independently, to secure a ruling about the Congress arrangements and the extent to which local societies have a voice therein. The matter must be regulated in such constitutional way so as to give the Swiss no ground for further behaviour of this sort. We shall be glad to know the exact date of the Congress as soon as it is arranged.2 It was an enormous pleasure to hear that Professor is seriously thinking of attending the Congress.
Part 1. of the Journal has unfortunately been greatly delayed as the result of severe neurotic inhibitions on Radó's part. Ever since the Congress, there has been a perpetual struggle between him and me, with constant promises on his part and delays, and I was only able to get a part of his paper from him when he recently fell ill physically. Part 2. of the Journal, however, should appear before the end of April. In another fortnight I expect to finish a task which has occupied my spare time for the last two or three years, namely the revising of the five Sammlung volumes. I expect that Mrs. Rivière and I will feel inclined to turn for awhile to some other work or recreation before undertaking the next step in translation.
I cannot share Ferenczi's optimism about telepathy being used as objective proof of the contentions of psycho-analysis. On the contrary, in England at least, a great part of the opposition to psycho-analysis (see my review of McBride's book in Part l).3 Vol. VI. (of the »Journal«) is based on the imaginary idea that psycho-analysis operates with agents (the psyche) which are supposed to be independent of the body. The prejudice against telepathy is also so strong that any mixture of the two subjec