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Internationale Zeitschrift FÄR ÄRztliche Psychoanalyse
Budapest, Easter Sunday, 1925
Dear Professor,
Let us hope that for a time you are—free of all everyday toil and torment—somewhere where it is green. Unfortunately, in consideration of the foreigners, by whom I now allow myself to be devoured for money, I was unable to leave Budapest, and have only the two holidays reserved for myself. Earning money for its own sake is a terribly stupid thing. I always thought that at some time I would give up the business for a rather long time and would live and work for myself, but I am gradually coming to the realization that it is actually the great rest after life for which one prepares oneself so. Disturbances in my state of health from time to time actually make this deliberation even more to the point.
Apropos foreigners! A patient from America would like to have one of her (female) acquaintances, who can pay five dollars an hour, come to Europe and be analyzed. I recommended Fräulein Anna; in the event that she agrees (about which I request news soon), I will put the patient into direct contact with Fräulein Anna.
I recently received an editorial letter from Radó, out of whose contents I would only like to speak against the suggestion about renewed alteration of the editorial board. I find it premature for Radó to want to withdraw from being formally assigned to Eitingon and me already after such a short period of activity.1 It is also better if the Verlag remains, now as before, identical, in part, with the editorship. I won't reply to him until I hear your view on the matter.
Chance had it that for some time I have been treating a patient whom Rank analyzed in America, so that I was now able to catch glimpses of his technique. The impression that I received is not very favorable at the moment; I still want to wait before making a judgment, but I hope to be able to report in more detail on my next visit to Vienna. Rank doesn't write to me; I hear from Eitingon that Rank's de