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[Budapest,] December 20, 1912
Dear Professor,
At the eleventh hour I am permitting myself to make suggestions regarding the title of our journal.
Therapeutic is certainly bad; too narrow for the aims of the journal.
“Medical” [ärztlich] not only doesn't sound good but is also too one-sided. We want to have other readers besides physicians, or at least not scare them away directly.—
If there should be something limiting in the title, then I think “medicinal”
[medizinisch] would be a concept with greater scope. Medical is almost identical to therapeutic.
The best thing would be to leave out the adjective altogether and to say simply: International Journal for Psychoanalysis. All the more so since we are the official organ of the whole International Association, therefore also of the nonphysicians who are its members.
The word journal [Zeitschrift] distinguishes it sufficiently from the “Jahrbuch,” which usually doesn't mean something on the order of an archive but rather an organ for briefer communications. The medical should then be underscored somewhat more in the brochure.—An additional advantage would be that the title would be shortened somewhat as a result. Four long words are rather too much!
My doctors advise me not to travel. Localized hot compresses should accelerate the process: produce either resorption or colliquation.1 I am beginning to get impatient, but I am forcing myself.—
The reviews about the works in the Jahrbuch are very good, especially Tausk's paper (also Reitler's).2 The type is definitely too small (tiring!).