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The International Psycho-Analytical Press
10 June 1922
Dear Professor,
Your letter cleared up a great part of the situation and I am determined to do my best with what difficulties may remain. I can begin by assuring you that you misconstrued my opinion of your relations to Mrs. Riviere. I know both Psycho-Analysis and yourself well enough to have been fully prepared that you could not undertake her analysis except by seeing her problems through her eyes, and I have not been concerned at the risk of this vision being adverse to myself. My only fear about you was lest you might involve us all in too many external and permanent arrangements without having more than a one-sided knowledge of the actual situation in London (I do not speak for myself alone), in other words that your intellectual judgement might be influenced by information from a biassed quarter. And I am bound to say I do not think this fear was unjustified.
About the analysis itself I need say little. The account you gave of her was very clear to me, and I was glad to have my conclusions confirmed. It is, I am sure you will agree, also in the purely analytic aspects a remarkably interesting and complex case, and, like most character analyses, very difficult.
There is more to say about the current situation. You strongly disapprove of my cutting down the function of “translating editor to the Journal” to that of “revising translator”. Well, I have puzzled my head about this, and have looked through all the correspondence of the past two months, and I am sorry to say that I have failed to discover what this can refer to. In the copies of my letters to Mrs. R., after my immediate grateful acceptance of her offer, all I can find is the exact opposite, namely, an invitation to her to extend her offer to supervise the translations, so that it might also include the arranging with translators (allocation, etc.). I am glad to leave in her hands everything on earth to do with the translations except perhaps the de