Letter from Sándor Ferenczi to Sigmund Freud, February 11, 1929

Budapest, February 11, 1929

Dear Professor,

1. I anticipate with interest the patient announced by you.—

2. In order to deprive Jones of any possibility of “personal discrimination,” I am now also in favoi of the Paris trip and will write to Eitingon to that effect.1

3. I am receiving reports from America as a result of which Wittels has gained the sympathy of the New York group by virtue of statements in opposition to lay analysis. He lets himself be referred to everywhere as your “right hand.”—

Even Schilder2 is said to be behaving overcautiously, indeed, occasionally ambivalently, which contributes to the increase in his popularity. It would be good if Wittels's real significance were somehow made public.—

The trip home from Vienna was adventurous; I didn't arrive in Budapest until four o'clock in the morning, instead of half past nine—but the train was well heated.—I am very pleased that you are well.

Cordially,

Ferenczi