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International Journal of Psycho-Analysis
1 April 1921
London
Dear Professor,
Many thanks for your letter of the 18th. Since then the Eder question has been settled otherwise, as I indicated in a Rundbrief. I know she would not go to Rank—I asked her—but I may be able to find other patients for him.
Thank you for the Daly analysis which I will send on to Hiller for the Journal. I saw him during his passage through London and found him quite obviously improved, more balanced and grown up. But I am not too enthusiastic about his becoming an analyst.
I was very interested in your remarks about the Americans, which quite tallies with my impressions. Don't you think there is a relation between the lack of Gemeinsinn among the successful ones, their fondness for individualism, and just their success? I mean that the quality they lack seems to be related to pressure from without, whether national as with the Jews, Swiss and Celts, or due to other reasons for external unpopularity such as Ps-A. The native-born American feels strong enough without the help of his fellows.
I have observed like you the tendency of our young writers to make such remarks as “the interpretation is obvious”, but I think the tendency is not so much one of social discretion as the fear most young writers have to