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Berlin-Grünewald
25 May 1924
Dear Professor,
This letter needs no reply. It is itself a reaction, one of joy to the good news I have heard through Lampl: that you will soon be released from surgical trusteeship and can enjoy your holiday in the mountains. I believe that you too feel heartened by this decree, and so I hope that this summer will for you and yours take place against a background of decreasing worries about health!
I am taking the opportunity to give you some good news from here. Especially our courses are making gratifying progress. Sachs has about 40 students for the “Kings' Dramas”; I have announced four lectures on “The Ψα of Mental Disturbances” and was amazed to get an audience of 50. The other courses too are—for summertime—well attended. The Society's activity is satisfactory. The consultation practice has equalled zero for some time, as nobody here has any money and the influx of foreigners is very much smaller since Berlin is no longer cheap. However we dare hope that this crisis will be over in time.
Yesterday I sent Reik a review of a work that appeared in Buenos Aires.1 In a prison the author has analysed quite deeply and, with much understanding, a man sentenced for murder! This sort of thing has to come to us from South America!
I have still heard nothing more from Asch in New York. Perhaps the best and simplest thing is if it is left at that.
I have read the short article on neurosis and psychosis with the greatest pleasure. Apart from all the other excellent points, which I do not need to mention, it was a delight to read something that has come from living experience and gives the reader such a unique feeling of security. And best of all, something is soon going to appear again—the pleasures of holidays!