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Vienna, June 10, 19291
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
Do I need to assure you that both of you will be welcome to all of us, whenever you come?
I am already quite impatient to end this work period. The prosthesis treatment that your countryman Károlyi is performing on me also makes me fidgety (people say: nervous). He is doubtless very bright and skillful, but up to now we are having little success, and I am not yet certain whether I won't have to make the great sacrifice of a trip to Berlin.
I replied to Ophuijsen myself by responding to his Rundbrief, and, in fact, in an unambiguous fashion.2 Now I can be curious about Jones's visit.
I greet you cordially.
Yours,
Freud
This letter was found in the folder for 1919; since the “2” in the date “1929” is so small, it can also be read as a “1.” The content (mention of the Ferenczis' planned visit in Salzburg, as well as the treatment of the prosthesis by Károlyi) shows, however, that this letter represents Freud's (otherwise missing) reply to Ferenczi's letter of June 7, 1929 (letter 1164).
“If you don't want to destroy the IPA, you had better be careful. The first one who would resign from the IPA in the event that you should give in to the Americans in the question of lay analysis would be I, the author of ‘The Question of Lay Analysis’” (Freud to Ophuijsen, May 26, 1929, in , ed., Anna Freud's Letters to Eva Rosenfeld [Madison, Conn.: 1983], p. 135).