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Budapest, October 12, 1924
Dear Professor,
I deduce from the fact that Rank has still given no sign of life from himself that he will honor me with no reply whatsoever, so that my planned intervention can't be put into action at all. I won't write to him anymore, on no account will I make the thing easy for him on my part by being insulted. Should he also not write to you (which I do not consider possible), then certainly the time will have come for settling all affairs without asking him. But I still believe that he won't choose this ugly way of taking his leave, and that his indignation is aimed only at me, his former co-worker.
We had the first session yesterday; I gave a lecture,1 and Hermann handed over to me the manuscript of an entire pamphlet about the psychoanalytic-biographic explanation of the life and scientific activity of Fechner, Darwin, and Bolyai2 (a great mathematician).3 The group seems to be in a mood for work. We congratulated the Würzburgers by telegram.4
Lévy told us about a pathologic-anatomic confirmation of the “trauma of birth.”
The Congress of Hungarian Psychiatrists, which took place recently, occupied itself much with psychoanalysis;5 there were nonsensical accusations and nonsensical defenses there. I didn't go, but I enlightened a newspaper writer who interviewed me.
Many kind regards.
Yours,
Ferenczi