Letter from Karl Abraham to Sigmund Freud, February 13, 1916

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Allenstein
13 February 1916

Dear Professor,

I hope you have fully recovered from influenza, and also that you have satisfying news from all your family!

I am naturally very pleased that my paper meets with your approval.1 Incidentally, I personally felt, on the last reading, that the work was good. This is undoubtedly due in part to the slow way in which it matured. In the course of writing it piecemeal over the last seven or eight months, the whole train of thought could be worked through in my mind. In a few days, when I am rid of my official talk on hysteria, my wife will visit me for a week or so. After that, I may put pen to paper again, probably first of all something for .

I recently received the issue of with Reik's excellent paper on “Puberty Rites”,2 and then the with your Unconscious,3 the first half of which I have already read. I would rather wait until I have read the whole work before making any comment. Incidentally, Heller