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International Psycho-Analytical Association
27 February 1936
London
Dear Professor,
It must be a long time since I have written a letter to you personally, but I always regard my constant correspondence with Anna as being communications
with yourself. I am glad to learn from her that you have got over the lastest trouble and you must now be looking forward very greatly to the coming of spring and the life in Grinsing [Grinzing]. You were in my mind specially vividly last night when I gave a public address at Oxford on the history of the analytical movement,1 including a description of your personality. You would, I am sure, have been interested, as was the audience. The general atmosphere in England is much more friendly and respectful than it was ten or fifteen years ago.
In connection with the history I wanted to ask you two little questions. Could you remember in which year it was (a) you replaced hypnotism by the Bernheim device2 and (b) when you replaced the tracing of symptoms by general free association? Also when does the word ‘psycho-analysis’ first appear in your writings?
Mrs. Pierce Clark tells Leonard Woolf that her husband had only the American rights for the translation of ‘Hemmung, Symptom und Angst’. She is under the impression that we have the English rights. May I assume that this is so? You doubtless know that Strachey is at present engaged on a translation, which is badly needed. By the way, is Stefan Zweig's remark, referred to in a letter from Leonard Woolf which I enclose, as unfounded as the passage I have underlined about the Nobel prize in his book review which I also enclose?3
I am also sending on to you a very sad lucubration by McDougall which shows how thoroughly upset he is at your refusal to love him. I may say that the lectures that make up the book produced here an impression highly unfavourable to himself.4
At the moment we are relatively free from illness, but it is an unpleasant time of year. Our chief enjoyment is watching the win