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Budapest, February 18, 1914
Dear Professor,
Jelgersma's appearance and his letter were great events. I didn't know that Heller wants to get the paper, so, for that reason, I immediately wrote to Jelgersma at Abraham's urging, asking him to release the article for the Zeitschrift. But that shouldn't prevent Heller from publishing it separately.—Enclosed is a genuinely “Zurich” letter on the same subject, by Ophuijsen.1 “Jelgersma adapted too much,” he thinks, and wants “to push youth aside.” One can see that the logical consequence of an absolute ego psychology (which denies the role of the libido) leads unerringly to a kind of persecution mania. The Christian religion, which always fears the revenge of the killed father, may be the cause of this obviously epidemic psychosis among the Swiss analysts.—
If you think I should, I will send Ophuijsen's paper back to him. I find it partisan and malicious. The fear of new competition may also play a role in this. I very much like the candidly clear way in which Jelgersma talks