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21 March 19101
Dear Professor,
I am very glad to hear from you,2 and I too shall be in Nuremberg on Tuesday morning. My train gets in at 7.45, yours, if I am not mistaken, an hour earlier.3
With cordial greetings,
Yours,
Abraham
Postcard.
Missing.
The Second International Psychoanalytic Congress took place on 30-31 March in Nuremberg. Freud opened it with a lecture on “The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy” (1910d), and Abraham spoke second, on “The Psychoanalysis of Fetishism” (1910[18]). The main event was the decision to found the IPA. Freud's and Ferenczi's plan to move its seat permanently to Zurich and to vest in Jung exceptional powers as president for life—every lecture or article was supposed to be presented to him for approval—encountered resistance, especially from Adler and Stekel. The power of the president was thereupon lessened and his term of office limited to two years. In addition, the Korrespondenzblatt [Bulletin], edited by Jung as President and by Riklin as Secretary of the IPA, was founded as the official organ of the Association. Back in Vienna, Freud offered Adler the chairmanship of the Vienna Society and accepted the editorship, with Adler and Stekel, of a new Zentralblatt für Psychoanalyse: Medizinische Monatsschrift für Seelenkunde [], on the condition that he “could exercise the right of Veto against any article to be published” (Freud to Jones, 23 October 1924, Freud & Jones, 1993: p. 557).