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380A
Berlin-Grünewald
27 June 1920
Dear Professor,
You misinterpret the purpose of the Committee! It is not meant to put you out of action but to make your work easier, particularly within the
Ψα circle. Even though I cannot speak for all the C. members, I am certain that none of them would agree to your staying away from our event. That would really make it pointless. Because no one in local medical circles knows anything about Jones, Ophuijsen or Ferenczi. You, however, are the focus of positive interest as of the refusal. Therefore, to make the whole matter acceptable to you, I suggest the following changes. We arrange the lectures, which incidentally will not take a week but only two evenings with three papers on each, not after the Congress but before it. That way your time before The Hague is best organized. So please do agree! We shall then try to get the other speakers for the earlier dates as well. I am hoping for your “yes”!
My views about bringing in laymen have not changed. The lectures planned by Sachs deal with non-medical matters, and I have always been in agreement with extending this part of our science to lay circles and have indeed furthered it with my own writings.
About the business of Reuss & Pollak, Rank wrote to me exhaustively. I agree with him in everything and am writing to him about it today.
As regards the question of a Professorship, the delays are due to the fact that the Faculty must first ask the holder of the Chair of Psychiatry to give his assessment, and they then have to decide about the matter at a subsequent meeting. Without being too optimistic, I do not view the matter as hopeless. I should also like to give you some further news, which may not be of much importance in itself but is a pleasant sign of the times. I am going to Halle at the end of the week to read a paper to the doctors at the Clinic for Internal Medicine of the University. The director of the clinic, Professor Volkhardt, has invited me, through a colleague who is a