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International Psycho-Analytical Association
25 July 1935
London
Dear Professor,
I was very interested in your human document of July 21st and find the arguments in it very convincing. I should like to add to them the desire to express one's pleasure at the co-existence of someone one loves, which one can do more decidedly on a selected occasion than in everyday life. A birthday seems a natural occasion for this, it being a celebration of one's gladness at their birth, and there are obvious reasons why the desire comes to the forefront specially in reference to childhood and old age. In any case, however over-determined the desire may be, there is no doubt that it loses all sense if it does not give pleasure to the recipient. So you may be sure we shall respect your definite wishes in this matter.
Would you please tell Anna that I had a letter today from Eitingon in Trieste and have communicated with him in Paris. I saw Oberndorf last night, who presented me with a sad picture of the state of analysis in America. I am trying to arrange an informal meeting between several of us and Eitingon.