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International Psycho-Analytical Association
31 December 1930
London
Dear Professor,
You have probably heard from Eitingon of our meeting in Paris which we both found extremely agreeable. He was in a very clear and active mood and we had not the slightest difficulty in agreeing on every point of discussion. We also had a useful general talk about the progress of the movement, though I was grieved to hear of the amount of friction that apparently exists in the Berlin group. This is doubtless due both to the absence of a leader and to the group being of such heterogeneous sources, so we may hope that both these reasons will pass with time.
My family is very well, but I paid for my visit to Paris by contracting some infection which culminated in a severe otitis, so that most of the holiday was spent in bed. I got the tympanum pierced yesterday so should soon mend now. I wish I could join Eitingon in Nice. The weather in [Nice]1 London for the last month has been too filthy for words and we have rarely seen the sun.
A patient of mine, Mr. Robson-Scott is paying a visit to Vienna and has written to ask me for a letter of introduction to you. I am sending him one, saying at the same time that I do not know whether you are at present receiving visitors; he will probably write to enquire. He has been in analysis for some years and has proved one of the most difficult cases I have ever had to handle. It is a case of obsessional neurosis, with a basis of melancholia, but the main analysis has been a characterological one. He has throughout shown the most implacable hostility I have ever known and this has been coupled with the typical negative therapeutic reaction to progress. Nevertheless I still have confidence of a satisfactory final result. I expect the main object in wishing to see you is to obtain reassurance.