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13th November, 1946
Dear Miss Sharpe,
I am very grateful to you indeed for writing about Wednesday's meeting.1 The subject had to be almost insulted by the fact that I had to speak only for half an hour, when really the original plan in my mind was for six or more discussions.
As a matter of fact, I am not certain that I agree with you about psycho-analysis as an art. Out of your very wide experience there is something that you want to say, and which you express in this way. But from my point of view I enjoy true psycho-analytic work more than the other kinds, and the reason is to some extent bound up with the fact that in psycho-analysis the art is less and the technique based on scientific considerations more. Therefore, when I hear you speak about psycho-analysis as an art I find myself in difficulties; not wishing to completely disagree with you, but fearing lest this comment which you make should be given too much importance. There is obviously plenty of room for discussion here, but I thought I would let you know what I feel, because I usually find [when] I talk on non-analytic aspects of psychiatric work, that [people think] I am making an indirect comment on true analysis which I am not making.