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[by Abraham, Eitingon, Sachs]
INTERNATIONAL PSYCHO-ANALYTICAL ASSOCIATION
Berlin
26 November 1924
Dear Friends,
We are glad to take the opportunity to take up again the correspondence that was broken off quite a long time ago very much against our wishes. We are most particularly pleased that the encouragement to do so came from your side, dear Sándor.1 We hope that the revived Committee will work together in the future without internal difficulties, and we will be glad to contribute our bit.
We are especially delighted to welcome the Professor's readiness to take part in our correspondence in the old way. We had expected that Fräulein Anna would carry on the correspondence. But we do not approve of her taking part merely as her father's secretary; we would like to welcome her into our circle as a member with equal rights, so that she can take part in our discussions and meetings as they occur. We are incidentally of the opinion that the fact of our correspondence does not need to be kept a strict secret, although naturally no outsiders may look at it.
We have heard with satisfaction that you, dear Sándor, completely share our view of Rank's behaviour. But we should be also glad to know your attitude towards his scientific innovations. In Salzburg you seemed to be tending towards these views, which we took to be the case from a few passages in your last book2 and particularly from Róheim's paper.3 We are far from seeing, in a different point of view on your side, a reason for alienation, but it seems important to us to make the new beginning of the correspondence an occasion to express ourselves frankly so that the road will be clear for further scientific discussions.
This letter had reached this point when we had further news from Vienna, Budapest, and London almost all at the same time. We therefore arranged another meeting yesterday to answer all these letters at once.
In your letter to Max, dear Professor,4 you suggest taking Brill into our circle. Our general opini