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Berlin-Grünewald, Bismarckallee 14
13 March 1920
Dear Professor,
Our correspondence has come to a complete standstill. I kept silent for some weeks since I did not wish to put you under the obligation of replying to me so soon after your sad loss. As I have been in constant touch with Rank, you will in any case have heard what has been happening in our circle. Besides, two of your children have been able to bring you news from here. Both my wife and I were very pleased to welcome them. We are expecting Ernst back here soon and hope he will be a frequent guest. He has won lasting recognition for himself in his designing of the polyclinic,1 which is admired by everyone. It is a good thing that we got everything settled. One cannot tell, after the radical change that took place so quietly this morning,2 what will happen next and whether it will be at all possible to realize our plans in the near future. I have just finished the detailed memorandum on the teaching of Ψα at the university. Now we must wait and see whether such a move is feasible.
The polyclinic is well attended. I have already written to Rank about this recently: my lecture course,3 which was not sufficiently advertised, only has ten participants, but the quality pleases me partly very much. I hope that all the teaching will soon be well organized. We have other plans as well. Eitingon wants to arrange one room of the polyclinic as a reading-room where all our literature will be available. For the more distant future there is a project to start a special department for the treatment of nervous children. I should like to train a woman doctor particularly for this. All our plans depend on having enough new followers, and so far unfortunately do not have them. We have no young people fresh from university, and I want to try in every possible way to gain such workers.
I found “The Uncanny”4 very gripping. I have had a few similar cases in the last few months and came to the very same conclusions, although I d