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Berlin
11 January 1912
Dear Professor,
Only a few lines today to thank you very much indeed for your kind wishes and encouraging words! The latter have helped; I have just completed the preparatory work on my paper for the new journal. I know that its theme will interest you: it is about Amenhotep IV and the Aton cult.1 The subject has a particular attraction for me—to analyse all the manifestations of repression and substitutive formation in a person who lived 3,300 years ago. The Oedipus complex, sublimation, reaction formations—all exactly as in a neurotic today. I did the preparatory work partly in the Egyptian department of the Berlin Museum and was reminded more than once of the first instruction of Egyptology that I enjoyed in Vienna in December 1907.
That is all for today. In accordance with your wish, I did not want to keep you waiting too long for news. With cordial greetings also to your family from my wife and myself,
your devoted
Abraham