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British Psycho-Analytical Society
20 June 1927
London
Dear Professor,
Many thanks for your recent letter. I should like to return to one sentence in it of extreme importance, namely, where you say that you find Melanie Klein's views about the super-ego quite incompatible with your own. I would seem to be suffering from a scotoma, for I do not perceive this at all. The only difference I was aware of is that she dates both the Oedipus conflict and the genesis of the super-ego a year or two earlier than you have. As one of your chief discoveries has been the fact that young children are much more mature than had been generally supposed, both sexually and morally, I had regarded the conclusions reached from Frau Klein's experience as being simply a direct continuation of your own tendencies.