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27A
Berlin
30 April 1908
Dear Professor Freud,
I am sorry to have to bother you with a question. Today I am sending the paper of my talk to Gaupp1 to be printed. I noted under the title of the work: “Paper read at the First Congress for Psycho-Analytical Research in Salzburg on 27.4.08.” Is that description all right with you, or would you prefer another? I would not like to give the Congress a name on my own authority. I will make the alterations you asked for in the proofs, which I am expecting in about a fortnight. Many thanks in advance!
Salzburg was good. I only have great regrets about Bleuler's behaviour.2 I am convinced that we cannot expect anything more from him towards our efforts.
With cordial greetings,
your gratefully devoted
Karl Abraham
Robert Eugen Gaupp [1870-1953], German psychiatrist, professor in Tübingen [1906-1936]; editor of the Zentralblatt für Nervenheilkunde und Psychiatrie, in which Abraham's article then appeared.
From the beginning, Bleuler had great reservations about a psychoanalytic “movement”. Calling the Salzburg meeting a “congress” “represented an attitude which presently was to give his [Jung's] chief, Bleuler, a handle for criticism” (Jones, 1955: pp. 39-40). Bleuler's difficult relationship with Jung, who was, at that time, an enthusiastic advocate and promoter of such a movement, added to the strained atmosphere.