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2 January 1919
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
117F
Prof. Dr. Freud
Dear Dr. Binswanger,
Although I gained much satisfaction from your last two letters with their news that you are well, that your family is thriving and that your great work1 is making progress, I failed to reply to them. The catastrophe with its attendant tensions and worries, the general upheaval, and the anxiety about one of my sons2 who was missing - we have finally heard that he is a prisoner-of-war in a hospital in the Abruzzi - caused me to lose all interest in letter-writing. The New Year gives me the chance to make good this neglect. The old year will not easily be surpassed in horror.
Our psychoanalysis is the only thing to have flourished. The Budapest Congress3 turned out splendidly and brought me a considerable endowment,4 the proceeds of which Rank and I are using to set up a psychoanalytic publishing house,5 to ensure the regular appearance of our two journals and to bring out psychoanalytical books. The sixth edition of Everyday Life6 will be the first of these. Others are in preparation.
I even have enough money left over for two small psychoanalysis prizes.7 The first have already been awarded to Abraham (earliest stages of the libido 1916),8 Simmel (war neuroses)9 and Reik (puberty