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25th February 1957.
Dear Dr. Main,
It was natural that at the half-way stage we should have arrived in our discussions at a point where L is under discussion as my special patient. I had to take the opportunity to obtain personal relief after waiting many years before speaking about this case which I believe had in it the possibilities of a clinical result. I am writing to remind you that I am fully aware that this is not the subject which is interesting for you and me to be discussing together; the subject is the type of case, and L certainly falls into the category which you described in your address from the Chair.
In my opinion this work of yours is of importance to psycho-analysis. It may be that psycho-analysis can contribute to your understanding of the problem and that some of the analytic contributions you have not yet absorbed. This is a matter that can be found out. I think that you could be very interested in some of my own work bearing on this subject. It will be fun to try to convey to you the little bit that I think I could contribute as a psycho-analyst. The fact remains, however, that your collecting together of all the fragments of nursing reactions adds up to a real contribution to psycho-analysis.
Roughly speaking I would say that there are two obvious extremes