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Allenstein, Bahnhofstr. 82
(Please address letters to: “Reserve Hospital Artillerie-Kasino”)
16 April 1918
Dear Professor,
We have an unpleasant time behind us. First the search for a new residence, then moving from an old house into one even older. We have increasingly learned to renounce our claims to comfort, and so we are succeeding, by repressing all the desires natural to city-dwellers, in feeling tolerably comfortable in our new home. There is, however, a big orchard, so that the children are completely happy. In spite of everything we are naturally always happy anew to be able to live here together. Only the unforeseeable nature of the exile is depressing.—I am very glad that recently you have not needed to worry about your two sons at the front. I hope there is nothing seriously wrong with the one at home.
Now I have to thank you for your letter and the proofs. I have only just been able to read the latter. I wanted to read the first of your two papers1 through twice before letting you know my reactions. It is very difficult, and I had first to adjust myself to this new way of thinking. I believe I have now achieved this and can say that I have no serious objection to make. I shall now reread the whole series of articles and after that let you know again what I think. I already knew the draft of your melancholia paper2 so that it was less of a surprise to me. I am pleased to note that my “incorporation phantasy” could be fitted into the wider framework of your theory.3 I have no important criticisms of this paper either4 and can only admire your ability to complete the edifice always a little more at such a time. One very minor criticism is