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Berlin-Grünewald
2 May 1922
Dear Professor,
Your forthcoming birthday gives me a welcome excuse to write to you once again outside the framework of the circular letters. Thus this letter is filled with best wishes. As far as I am aware, I have no need to overcompensate for bad wishes, and a few words will therefore suffice to assure you once again of the cordiality of my affection.
As on several former occasions, I am once again enclosing a small contribution1 for the as a birthday present, in the hope that it will interest you and meet with your approval.
Your letter of 30 March is still waiting for a reply, while I have already thanked you for the reprint of “Mourning and Melancholia”. I fully understand your forgetting it. Your failure in sending the paper I asked for was meant to indicate that I should first of all study the other source (Mass Psychology). Now, I am quite familiar with its contents concerning the subject of mania and melancholia, but, in spite of going through it once again, I cannot see where I went wrong. I can find no mention anywhere of a parallel in normal cases, i.e. the onset of a reaction state after mourning that can be compared to mania (after melancholia). I only know from your remark in “Mourning and M”. that you miss something of that kind. And I referred to this in my comment. The increase in libido after mourning would be fully analogous to the “feast” of the manic. But I have not found this parallel from normal life in that