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422F
Vienna1
10 May 1923
Dear Friend,
I must shamefacedly ask you to accept this wretched card in payment for your long, warm letter. Because of the visits and celebrations of the last week I am behind with the fulfilment of all my duties. I can again chew, work, and smoke, and I shall try your optimistic formula: many happy returns of the day and none of the new growth!2
Cordially yours,
Freud3
Postcard.
Italicized words in English in original.
In August, while Freud spent his holidays in Lavarone, the members of the Committee met, without him, in the nearby San Cristoforo. The meeting was marked by a heated controversy between Rank and Jones. Rank was infuriated by an allegedly anti-Semitic remark Jones had made about him to Brill and demanded Jones's expulsion from the Committee, while Abraham defended Jones. The Committee was not dissolved for the moment but would collapse shortly afterwards. (Cf. Freud & Jones, 1993: p. 527; Gay, 1988: p. 424; Grosskurth, 1991: p. 134; Lieberman, 1985: pp. 188-191.)