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27th November 1953.
Dear Mrs. Ries:
Your letter does not really need an answer but I felt like saying one thing, which is that I do not think it matters if Melanie Klein and particularly her followers have a phase in which they claim too much. I always remember the word “atom” which means that it cannot be split up. The physicists were great men and one cannot say that their work is no good because they thought the atom was the final dissection. In some places the followers of Mrs. Klein speak as if they knew everything, but in the course of time they will find that they do not.
I would like also to say that working with Mrs. Klein I have found that the work of Freud and the sort of work which you describe in your paper is not ignored, certainly by Mrs. Klein herself and people like Dr. Heimann. The trouble is that it is taken