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Internationale Zeitschrift für Arztliche Psychoanalyse
Corfu, March 14, 1913
Dear Professor,
I am doing wonderfully well here in the land of the Phaiacians.1 Sea route smooth and sunny. Everything is glowing and blooming, it is almost unbelievable. Even poor Konrad feels well here. We saw most of the war2 near Trieste and Pola: (night maneuvers by about twenty-six Austrian “units”). It is teeming here with Epirotic3 refugees, so that one has to fill one's pockets with pendáres and dekátes4 when one goes out. I photographed an Epirotic woman who had an eye tattooed on her forehead; then I saw about twenty with the same ornamentation. (Only women have this ornamentation.)
There are two Greek warships here in the harbor. They are afraid of the Hamidie,5 which is said to be hanging around here.
Kind regards,
Ferenczi
A people known from the Odyssey, from whom Odysseus received a cordial reception. From there he returned to Ithaca after ten years of wandering.
In 1912 Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Montenegro had defeated Turkey, which lost its European territories in the Treaty of London (May 30, 1913). On July 3, 1913, the Second Balkan War, against Bulgaria, ensued over the division of the former Turkish territories. The allies were Romania, Serbia, and Greece; Turkey joined on July 21. In the Peace of Bucharest (August 10), Bulgaria lost Macedonia to Serbia and Greece, as well as Crete and Epirus to Greece.
From Epirus, in what is today northwestern Greece. The island of Corfu, which belongs to Greece, is off the shore of Epirus.