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Vienna, December 3, 1918
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
I thank you and Frau Gisela on my own behalf and that of everyone for the delicious roast, which for a short time gave us the illusion of lavish excess. It is really not meritorious to love one's friends when they take care of one in such a fashion, the well-known difficulty that Schiller found in the Kantian categorical imperative.1
I have decided on the prizes in the following way: the medical one split between Abraham's paper on the earliest pregenital stage of the libido and Simmel's pamphlet,2 and the Imago prize to Rank's paper on the puberty rites of savages.3 For that I need 2,000 crowns, which you and Freund should withdraw from the bank on the basis of my last letter sent to Freund, and give to Rank the next time he comes to Budapest.
Today Rank is having the decisive conversation with Heller about his