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Internationale Zeitschrift für Ärztliche Psychoanalyse
Budapest, June 19, 1914
Dear Professor,
With regard to the—very justified—wish to take up the important relation of the ambivalence of savages and of neurotics in my paper,1 I have already done what is necessary. On the question of the presidential letter,2 I share the view of Rank and Sachs.—I will naturally assume the task of presenting a paper on the topic of “The International Psychoanalytic Association,” but I hope it won't come to that; I wrote to Abraham to that effect; a letter from Abraham to me calls our (the Zeitschrift's) attention to the fact that the works of Morton Prince, Häberlin, and Blüher3 should not have been published without editorial corrective commentary. I, too, believe we ought not to spare the editorial red ink. Otherwise it will happen to us again that someone quotes a collaborator like Beaurain (whom I did contradict)4 as a “psychoanalyst” against analysis. (See the little piece about the dream in Löwenfeld's collection.)5 —Just read through Jelgersma's issue;6 for the most part very good and understandable; he could have spared himself the genteel reserve.—I recently wrote a little paper on neuroses of the age of involution,7 with points of contact with masturbation, neurasthenia, and—melancholia! I will send it to you; please read it with forbearance; i.e., don't dismiss it right away if it appears incorrect to you. In any case, write to me what you think of it. It is my first reaction to your Narcissism.—Enclosed, a kind letter from Putnam. I will reply in a similarly amicable manner.8 —Abraham writes to me that he wants to come to Seis.9 What can you tell me about the place? Should I really be breathing down your neck again for the whole of August—or do you want for once to take a rest without me and without psychoanalytic conversations?!
I have nothing else to write.—Regards from Frau G., who was very pleased about your stay here.10 —We have to be careful with Varjás.—
Cordially,
Fer