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Berlin-Grünewald, Bismarckallee 14
19 October 1919
Dear Professor,
Many thanks for the joint card from the Kobenzl,1 for your letter, and for your photograph, which I received from Hamburg. It is excellent, true to life, and technically perfect.
I have naturally not the slightest objection to Eitingon being co-opted as a member, and he has been glad to accept. I am only too pleased to have someone here with whom I can discuss everything, should the need arise.
All the news from the Committee interested me very much and meet with my approval. There seems to be a general wish for a congress in the spring. Since most of the participants live in Germany and Austria and will not be able to afford a journey to Holland just at present, the congress will probably have to take place either in Germany or in Austria. Eitingon and I should like to propose to the Committee that the congress be held in Berlin and should further like to suggest that our closed scientific meetings be followed by a number of lectures partly on medical and partly on general subjects. We would ask you to pass on this suggestion, with our comment that there would certainly be a considerable number of participants for such a project.
After I discussed this with Eitingon, I met Federn, who broke his journey in Berlin. He said the Vienna Society was declining and expressed the hope that a congress in Vienna would revive interest there. What do you think about this? Naturally we do not want to stand in your way.—The previous objection raised against university towns is no longer valid. Berlin is clamouring for psychoanalysis, and a week of explanatory lectures would be of great service to us.
Simmel recently gave an excellent report in the Society on the Ψα of a gambler.2 He has been coming on very well lately.
A word about your last paper!3 I am most enthusiastic about it. It seems to me that you have never before penetrated so deeply into the uttermost depths of a problem. Moreover, the presentation is so be