Letter from Sándor Ferenczi to Sigmund Freud, July 26, 1913

Budapest, July 26, 1913

Dear Professor,

Your kind and heartfelt congratulations have touched me deeply. I cannot yet answer the question: “What will you do now?” I hope to be able to talk with you in detail about these things in the Tyrol.

I am pleased to hear that—despite the bad weather—you are feeling well. It was a difficult year, the one just past!

Jung's paper in the Jahrbuch1 is in retrospect justifying my critique most admirably. He is trying to blur the differences; it was good to point them out ruthlessly. I think that you will soon have to concern yourself with the question of whether you should resign as director of the Jahrbuch.—

My mother (Frau Rosa Ferenczi) is now living in Marienbad (Haus Worms) and wants to become acquainted with your family, which I also encouraged her to do. I will let you know her address.

Jones is working diligently; I hope the analysis will be useful to him in every respect; he was still not able to emancipate himself completely from his latent tendencies (although he is thinking very optimistically about it).2

I may not be able to arrive in the Tyrol until the 18th; I will, of course, notify the hotel manager about this at the proper time.

Cordially,
Ferenczi