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International Journal of Psycho-Analysis
25 March 1926
London
Dear Professor,
I was very glad indeed that you like the first part of the OBITUARY and so may venture to hope that you will like the personal part at the end which is naturally most significant. I am grateful for your comments and will mention them in order.
Reginald Allen was President of the American group when he was killed in the war. See Proceedings of the Hague Congress, Zeitschrift 1920, S. 381.1
The record of length during which Abraham was President is, as you say, unimportant and can well be omitted.2
The mistake about Weimar and Munich came about as follows: At the end of the Weimar Congress Jung talked to me about the time when he would stand higher than you. I was very astonished and naturally asked him why he did not analyse his father complex instead of trying to live it out in such an inappropriate way. His mystical answer “It is my fate” showed me which way things were moving. As you know, I was closely identified with Abraham in the opposition to Jung at Munich, but my opposition really began from Weimar.3
My memory was correct here, for I was in correspondence with
Abraham over the choice of place for the 1914 Congress. There is an official notice in the Korrespondenzblatt announcing that it would be held at Dresden on the 20th September, 1914.4 About the discussion that preceeded the choice of Budapest in 1918 I know nothing.