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92F
Noordwijk
22 August 1910
Dear Friend,
I must take your latest piece of work1 as an opportunity to congratulate you heartily on all the contributions you render to the cause of psychoanalysis. I do not know of anything to place beside them for clarity, inner solidity, and power of evidence. I am convinced that that is the impact on all readers on our side. The others, with Ziehen at their head, may see for themselves how they cope with them.
My stay in N., where I have not been able to work at all, is nearing its end. Dr Jones, who was my guest for two and a half days,2 shook me into action a little. I heard from him, and by letter from Putnam, that the American group will come into existence.3 Ferenczi, with whom I shall be travelling during the whole of September, arrives here on the 27th. We want to see a few towns in Belgium and then travel by way of Basle and Rome to Sicily. We will do much work on Ψα then. I am greatly looking forward to it, because I am already taking the idleness badly.
Be so kind as to send me the expected domestic news from your house by way of my wife, who is staying in Holland until about 15 September. On 1 October I go back to work, to which one becomes reconciled again after a long break.
On the whole, I think, our cause is going very well, and is no longer for my four eyes only.4 Progress will now be more difficult, however, the surface has been creamed, the final, decisive results are perhaps not yet clearly visible, and defence is required not only against enemies but also against rash fellow-workers. But perhaps it is only I who have an