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18th November 1955.
Dear Miss Freud,
I am trying to put together a small contribution which seems to me to follow your paper Psycho-Analysis and Education and the discussion as reported in Volume 9 of the Psycho-Analytic Study of the Child.
I feel that so many important things were said by you in the course of that discussion that they lead naturally on to a more definite statement than was made of the emotional state of the mother at the very beginning of the infant's existence. This has been referred to but rather in terms of a biological state, and the word symbiosis has been used.
All this ties up very much with the difficulties that the Society is having at the moment in tracing the early roots of unfused aggression, this being reflected in my opinion in Mrs. Klein's temporary (I hope) insistence on what she calls innate envy, something which involves the idea of a variable genetic factor.
I am writing to you because I am wondering whether you have a group that I could write this short paper for so that it could be