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Vienna, May 25, 19201
Dear friend,
In her book “Psychoanalysis 1919,”2 Barbara Low quotes a sentence of yours: Our unknown repressions lead us ever further in the way of repression.3
Where is it? I need it for “Beyond,” on which I am now working.
Cordially,
Freud
Postcard.
, Psycho-Analysis: A Brief Account of the Freudian Theory (London, 1920). Freud had received the book the day before (Freud/Jones, May 24, 1920, p. 383). Barbara Low (1877-1955) was a teacher who became interested in psychoanalysis through her brother-in-law David Eder. She was analyzed by Hanns Sachs in Berlin. As a founding member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, she was very active in the Association; she supported Anna Freud and Edward Glover in the Freud-Klein controversies.
Sentence in English in the original [Trans.]. Freud subsequently cited Low's “Nirvana principle” in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920g, p. 56) and a passage from Ferenczi's “Stages in the Development of the Sense of Reality” (1920g, n. 3, pp. 41-42), but not the sentence referred to here.