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9th October 1953
Dear Dr. Rapaport:
I am writing simply to let you know that I really did enjoy your talk on Wednesday and I felt that you really began to enable me to start giving my own ideas more in terms of psycho-analytic theory of an accepted kind. I am one of those people who feel compelled to work in my own way and to express myself in my own language first; by a struggle I sometimes come around to rewording what I am saying to bring it in line with other work,
in which case I usually find that my own “original” ideas were not so original as I had to think they were when they were emerging. I suppose other people are like this too. I think I began to see where you and I would find a difference of opinion if we had time to talk.
I would like to feel that Masud Khan and yourself will give time for a discussion together. He is junior in the ordinary term as a psycho-analyst but I believe his knowledge of the literature and of the development of psycho-analytic thought is not equalled in our Society. If you and he are able to have a talk I shall personally benefit in an indirect way. It may be that there will be an opportunity for us to meet before you go back to U.S.A. but just in case the time passes and nothing has happened, I wish to let you know how very much I have enjoyed hearing you talk at the Wednesday meeting.
With good wishes,
Yours sincerely,
D. W. Winnicott