Letter from Karl Abraham to Sigmund Freud, January 15, 1914

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Berlin
15 January 1914

Dear Professor,

In reply to your questions1:

1. Eitingon, according to his own statement, visited Vienna for the first time at the end of January 1907.2

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2. The “Freudian Association” must have had its first meeting sometime in the middle of the year 1907. I myself read a paper at one of the first meetings (on the experiencing of sexual traumas), which was published in November 1907. It must have been presented late that summer.

3. The third question is hard to answer. When I came to the Burghölzli in December 1904, interest in psychoanalysis already existed. The following years saw a rapid increase in this interest. The following events definitely preceded this:

   1. Jung's “Occult Phenomena” (1902),3 in which your Interpretation of Dreams is quoted (p. 102).

   2. Jung's attempt at an analysis of the patient B. St., published in the appendix to the Psychology of Dementia Praecox.4

   3. Several of the studies on association had already been published.