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Budapest, March 1, 1926
Dear Professor,
[I] was very pleased by the news about the improvement in the state of your health. Dr. Lévy, who is visiting you these days, was likewise able to reassure me.—One can and may naturally not be forced into analysis, but
please keep in mind that, as soon as your disinclination (should I say resistance?) has been halfway overcome, I can come to Vienna immediately. I can simply bring my American patients to Vienna and divide up the few local ones. My intention of coming has nothing to do with plans to move; I was thinking of a stay of a few months.—
Enclosed I am sending you the letter I just received from Wittels,1 whereby I am possibly injuring the discretion I owe him. But I can't reply without having learned your opinion about the society mentioned by him, about the appropriateness of my appearing in that circle, about the eventual possibility of avoiding having this celebration. Federn, too, won't let go, even though Eitingon and I already decidedly advised against it; Federn is likewise figuring on my coming. It would be unjust to turn down Federn and accept Wittels's invitation.
I am sorry to have to bother you so often with this matter.
Please reply—with good news about how you are.
Yours,
Ferenczi
The letter has not been found. On behalf of the Vienna Society for Medical Psychology, Wittels had invited Ferenczi to give a celebratory lecture on the occasion of Freud's birthday. Shortly beforehand, Wittels had sought readmittance to the Vienna Society, and Freud had “intervened very energetically on his behalf, for a strong intellectual potency and excellent writing abilities are recognizable in that man. Despite some reservations regarding his person, I see an advantage in his joining” (Freud's Rundbrief of November 15, 1925, Sigmund Freud Copyrights).