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30 June 1915
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Doctor,
I should have liked to reply to you long ago if the chances of my letter's arriving were better. As you assure me that you had news of Rank and Sachs, I will also try again.
Your news pleased me very much and I can only applaud your resolve to guard the flag of psychoanalysis. When we see each other again after the end of this unfathomable war, our estrangement should be limited to the least possible extent. For quite similar reasons I have not replied to Loe and Herbert Jones.
I thank you for the small enclosures to your letter. While Putnam sent me notice of his book, I have not received it as yet.1 We are keeping the Zeitschrift and Imago going; as for the new volumes, the third and second issues respectively are about to be published. All my editors are already doing military service; for the time being, Rank is staying in Vienna. My son Martin has been in Galicia since January and is keeping well. Ernst completed his training and is waiting for further orders.
Despite some inner difficulties I have (almost) completed a collection of twelve essays, which is to be published in book form after the war, perhaps with the title Zur Vorbereitung der Metapsychologie. The first four of the series will be published in the Zeitschrift; “Triebe und Triebschicksale” in Nr. 2 is the first in the series.2
Jekel's paper on Napoleon seems to me to have no connection at all with yours; he takes up one of the mainsprings in his character; that should