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3rd January 1949.
Dear Dr. Federn,
I have only just read your lectures on Psychoanalysis of psychoses 1943 and I am writing to say that I have very much enjoyed them. The wealth of clinical experience behind them is so clear. I am very much wanting to have a copy of these for re-reading as the copy I read was a photostat belonging to the U.S. Army. If you happen to have a reprint I would be very grateful if you would send me one. Alternatively I can order a copy of the Psychiatric Quarterly from the publishers. In a week or two I hope to be able to send you a reprint of a lecture of my own on another aspect of the same subject.
You may remember me as the young analyst who never wrote to thank you for taking such a lot of trouble over an article I wrote a long time ago on play or some such subject. That article was written under the influence of Melitta Schmideberg when I was quite unready to write on the theme. The whole thing seemed to me rather unreal at the time and it took me many years to get it into perspective. When you came to England you said to me that this must represent a strong negative transference which had got caught on to yourself. I think this was not correct; there was another explanation, which was that I had been persuaded to do something which was not really part of me and which I really resented.
With good wishes,
Yours very sincerely,
D. W. Winnicott.