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8 December 1915
69 Portland Court, London
Dear Professor Freud,
Although I have not heard so, I trust that you received my letter which was sent to you in September when you were in Hamburg.1 Last week I sent to you or Rank a batch of abstracts to help to keep things going. Does Imago still run? I hope that at least the Zeitschrift will continue all through.
Here everything is as before. Loe's house is not yet ready, though they have gone to live in it. I think she will be miserable when it is finished, it is such a wonderful distraction to her. She is better now, but of late has not been so well, some neurotic symptoms. I see her every two or three weeks, and greatly enjoy doing so. This autumn I have read several papers at various societies, and intend publishing my book on treatment in the New Year.2 The Ps-A Society has not met, but we have informal meetings of the three or four soundest men; I hope to get Eder out of it. Knowledge of our subject still spreads in England, in spite of the effects of the war. Reversion to repressed and unconfessed tendencies are so evident in all countries at present that it is no longer possible to deny their existence. I find the psychologists here much more accessible than the neurologists, partly, I suppose, because their interests are not so directly threatened. A little indication is the fact that I have recently been elected to the Council of the British Psychological Society, which is satisfactory as it is a very respectable body!
Can I ask you a scientific question arising out of your article on repression,3 for the reprint of which I thank you? You describe the action of the