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Internationale Zeitschrift für Ärztliche Psychoanalyse
Budapest, April 15, 1923
Dear Professor,
I have just been reading the second sheet of your Ego-book and hasten to say how gratified I was by the solution to the apparent contradiction in the “unconscious consciousness of guilt.” It certainly would never have occurred to me that the “superego” (as a consequence of its ignoble origin from the erotic) can become incapable of consciousness.1 But as soon as I read it, it became completely self-evident to me. Such recognitions amply reward one for the effort that the attentive reading of your work requires.
Now, a small personal-scientific question: Am I justified in qualifying the “ego memory systems,” which I postulate in my paper on tic,2 as a part of your ego? I believe: yes. The ucs. (the latent and the repressed) certainly contains, if I understand you correctly: the remnants of the memory of things. But one must also assume similar mnemic traces in the ego, and one may presume that they are mostly engraved simultaneously with the objective memory images (similar to double sensation in pain), and there they probably have their own (onto- and phylogenetically acquired) “systems”
Apropos sensation! Would it not be instrumental to retain the, in my