Letter from Sigmund Freud to Karl Abraham, October 21, 1912

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Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
21 October 1912

Dear Friend,

Your letter has been with Deuticke for a long time; I myself have been prevented from replying for a few days; I also know why. It is hard to know what to do with the American, and what is more, the fellow is impudent. You could refer to your supposed part in the misfortune of the Atlantic (but she has a different name!), in the end you will have to give in.

My condolences on the tragic event in your family; it is to be hoped that your dear wife has recognized as some consolation the advantages of a quick death.

I like your Amenhotep in its revised form very much better, it is an adornment of our , which continues to count on you.

I have heard in quite a number of my cases of an absence of ejaculation as a ψ disturbance, but at the time of the analysis the disturbance was already over and had given way to a common anaesthesia with excellent motor potency. I have not treated cases like yours.

Now to what preys on my mind. I find it embarrassing to think that we should get on so well because we meet so rarely. (With Ferenczi it goes just as well, incidentally, despite our frequently being together.) So