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276F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
4 May 1915
Dear Friend,
A fortnight of being cut off from Germany has at last ended. Today I received, together with your nice letter, 12 postcards from my wife in Hamburg! I now hasten to send you the long-delayed reply.
Your comments on melancholia were very valuable to me. I unhesitatingly incorporated in my paper those parts of them that I could use. What was most valuable to me was the reference to the oral phase of the libido, and I also mention the link with mourning.1 Your request for severe criticism caused me no difficulty; I liked practically everything you wrote. I should like to make only two points: that you do not bring out sufficiently the essential feature of the assumption, that is to say the topical element, the regression of the libido, and the abandonment of the