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Internationale Psychoanalytische Vereinigung International Psycho-Analytical Association
Budapest, April 29, 19281
Dear Professor,
It was a pleasure to find your kind letter here upon my return from the Adriatic. I was particularly pleased to see the fact of my unshakable maintenance of the necessity of lay analysis being recognized. That also brings me to making a confession to you that I sought the presidency mainly because I found our friend Eitingon, notwithstanding all his other assets, too lukewarm in this connection. To be sure, my politics would have been less compromise-prone than his; in place of that, a small crowd would have grouped around me, which, unconcerned by other interests, would do pure psychoanalysis.
The week in Lovrana was instrumental as an intellectual rest period, although we both got a terrible attack of cold and coughing, with which we are still laboring; in the end, one was glad to find the accustomed Budapest spring climate again.
Yesterday we had a session with the Viennese guest lecturer, Dr. Reich.2