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The International Psycho-Analytical Press
10 April 1922
Dear Professor,
I shan't be able to write the Rundbrief until after the Easter holidays, so will not delay in answering your important letter which came this morning, especially as time is of the essence of some of the points raised.
I will do my best to think out an address for the Congress, though I fear it won't be in dashing German; among whatever qualities I may possess linguistic fluency is not one of them, at least in a foreign tongue. But what I should like to know is whether the theme of “The Relations of Psa to Medicine” would be of sufficiently general interest to be suitable; to the English and Americans it certainly would, but I am not sure about the Continentals.
I see that you agree with me that Mrs. Riviere certainly deserves a title if she desires it, and there can be no objection to the proposal she makes. As she makes so many claims that can't be granted it is a pleasure and relief to be able to find some that can. She is, as I told you, a most valuable and capable person (it is this undeniable fact that complicates the situation), but whether she will work as easily for me as she doubtless would for you remains for time to prove; it will depend largely on the result of her analysis. As to your other proposals about sub-editors, they want a lot of thinking over. In the first place I can't shift people about, install them and dismiss them, with the freedom that your commanding position could enable you to, and it is I who should get the odium of any resentment, as with Forsyth and Tannenbaum. My position and age are not secure enough for me to neglect careful consideration of other people's susceptibilities, even if I wished to, which I don't. For instance, Bryan and Flugel are both men of very sound judgement, which I value highly and also find most useful. Then they are certainly the two leading analysts in England. Further Bryan has done twenty times as much work for the Journal as Rickman an