523 Iron ^A

Dr. Ferenczi SANDOR

IDEGORVOS, KIR. The statutory. Medical expert *

TELEPHONE : 42-46 Budapest VII. ERZSÉBET-körút 54 ^B

Potato, the 11 December 1914

Dear Professor,

There_:attached schedule of trains between Vienna and dad passable, via Gyôr.

arrival 5 h 15 morning.

Return

1) Dad starting 6 h 25 (fast train)

2) Györ 7 h 12 omnibus

Vienna 11 h 20 omnibus

3) Dad starting 2 h 29 p.m.

Györ departure 4 h 14 omnibus

Arrival in Vienna 7 h 52 (evening) omnibus

4) Dad starting 5 h 21 morning, Györ bus departure 9 h 30 morning, Rapid Vienna arrival 11 h 40

5) Dad starting 1 h 36 la nuit Györ 3 h 6

Vienna 6 h 45 morning.

Use at your pleasure!

Ferenczi

P.S. For additional security, Oli should ask if the Staatsbahnhof trains shown here are actually all to Vienna, or only to Bruck, well and leave Vienna and not only Bruck !

A. Written on both sides of a card.

B. Card printed so far.

* Dr. Sandor Ferenczi, neurologist, royal court expert.

Iron

Potato, the 9 December 1914

Dear Professor,

The pattern outside - conditioning inside - my long silence was, this time, serious enough cooling, contracted during a night exercise - I attended without being required. Now, I'm well again. Works mutation do not want to grow faster than the Germans in Argonne ¹ ; Mine are always asked, although some have exploded without success. (There 6 month, the military way of expression would have seemed insane. I fear that, for years, the whole intellectual life of Europe was dominated by the war - even if peace is reached much earlier.)

I am very happy not to give up hope to see you here one day. On m'enverra demain, by mail Györ, list of correspondences that work. New commander, more severe, we simply prohibits regular Sunday outings, so my trip to Vienna is questioned. Maybe I'll get there though.

After successfully making friends of all the gentlemen and ladies of the garrison, and also to give satisfaction to my superiors as a military doctor, I think I have done my duty, and my desire to return to Budapest to my usual work becomes more intense.

I have forgotten twice to tell you that I received a few lines in Budapest of Otto Gross ; he joined the army - as he writes - as a military doctor, and Hongrie ². I was very surprised by this. Another colleague wrote to me is Eitingon ³. Both have also tried to contact me personally, à Budapest.

My cordial greetings to the dear family members. Your daughter says Sophie the atmosphere in Germany ?

Sincerely, Ferenczi

1. Mountains on the border between France and beige, where the German advance was stopped, to transform itself into a war of position.
2. The 8 July 1914, Otto Gross fut congédié, "Cured", the psychiatric clinic Troppau (Silesia) ; thereafter, he undertook an analysis with Wilhelm Stekel, à Bad Ischi. When war broke out, Gross worked as a volunteer doctor in section ill of smallpox, hospital Franz Joseph in Vienna, then Northern Hungary, in a hospital for contagious campaign, A Ungvar (Today in Ukraine). Then, returned to civilian life, he served as a medical reserve Territorial Army, the Imperial and Royal Hospital for contagious Vinkovci, and Slavonia. View Emmanuel Hurwitz, Otto Gross, Paradise-seekers between Freud and Jung (Otto Gross in search of paradise between Freud and Jung), Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, 1988.
3. Max Eitingon, as an Austrian citizen, voluntarily enlisted in the army (Eitingon to Freud, 24 VIII 1914, SFC) ; He was first stationed at the garrison hospital in Prague, then in various localities in Hungary (Cash, Iglo, Hatvan, Miskolc).

* Berlin W, Rankestrasse 24

6.12.14.

Dear Professor,

What you say in your last letter I was really interested and very pleased. In general, we only hear about trenches, numbers of prisoners, etc. ; but now finally a sign that our science is also still alive. I am very anxious to know what ideas you have matured in the short time that has elapsed since our last meeting, and I look forward to coming to Vienna between Christmas and New Year's Day. But it is very problematic; in fact, I do not even know if I will continue to take care of the hospital. Maybe we have the pleasure, meantime, receive a visit from your wife on her return from Hamburg. If she would give us a few hours, we would be very happy.

It's good to see you so full of zest for work. From this point of view there, I feel very much as. Although I do not be rested for the summer, I highly resistant to the large amount of work. My sessions are always maintained at a rate of 3 at 4 per day. But it is possible that the mobilization of the reserve make a dent in my small group of customers.

What will happen to the next Jahrbuch? So far, I did a work Sadger. On your side, I can count on the great work which you have spoken several times. Reik me know that its contribution fell into the water. We may well overcome accounts; but I think we run out of original work. For my part, personally, I can not guarantee that I will put something up in the coming months. The hospital takes me too long. Moreover, This year the Jahrbuch never find lessee, and will probably Deuticke difficulties. Then, qu'en sera-t-il?

You have already, dear Professor, AFAIK, a manuscript sizable reserve; in your last letter, you telling me that Reik finished something; his "Couvade", also, is always unique. We may also contact Jones via Van Emden, to see if something. Ferenczi, Rank and Sachs will certainly bring their contribution. Of Sadger we already have a manuscript. For my part, I intend to develop the issue of premature ejaculation. Maybe we could all increase some miscellany. All the work that will be later in the course of the next year would be the capital base of our three periodic 1916, where they could again appear separately. If you think this proposal questionable, you can talk with our Viennese friends.

Your momentary pessimism me désolerait, if it followed a period of intense productivity. Results like that you have hinted recently do not fall from the sky every day; but it is equally certain that they are renewed. One, as I hope, I'll see you in a while, I'm sure you speak to me again with new ideas and new findings. Sure, not everyone has the chance of M^me Salome with 6 big brothers. Still, you have now 6 co-operators, small, but faithful, who have at heart, in times like this, to cheer you up.

On the front, the situation is, I believe, more favorable than we told. Particularly, Russian army looks completely demoralized. We hear much talk here of the will of our enemies to make peace; but we do not know whether to believe. Current setbacks are unwelcome in Serbia; we can assume that the Serbs have received reinforcements from outside.

I hope, next time, I will have you and yours, and your son, that's good news, and I send you all my very best wishes, as well as those of my wife.

Votre Karl Abraham.

Göttingen,

the 4. XII. 1914

Dear Professor,

In the midst of all this sadness, you write something wonderful : your mind has regained her liberty, you are back to work and that you long rest was involuntary rather profitable. It was only later, when it's ripe for the impression that this happens to me. This is what I already thought impatiently when I saw the Magazine September echoes of your conference in April to the Company on narcissism, conference that I could then read that in the new Yearbook. This is not the first time that I write from the receipt of reprint of this test, not from one of your last letter which I am very grateful. More, with regard to the theme of narcissism, it became too large, burst was part of a letter and seemed very pretentious. This will happen to you one day or another, and some form, because this theme has long pursued me ; it is certain that this circumstance is based on personal reasons, without thereby, hopefully, This digress on the objective plane.

At a point, it affects your position as to mine about the seriousness of our time and also what you call my optimism, which seems to run now a dismal failure. This does not prevent me from continuing to think that behind human activities and which can be reached psychoanalytically, is an abyss where the pulses the most valuable and the most infamous condition each other that we can not distinguish them from each other and, so, not make a final judgment. This remarkable unit is a fact not only in the degree suddenly crossed life's most archaic (of humanity as an individual) but constantly and for each. This is likely to destroy all pride, but also to give courage to the timid more. Certainly, it does not change our repulsion or to our delight regarding a mode of human expression and it is for this that'To a time like ours, all joy and hope can therefore fatal disease ; but it is also known by itself- Just as we do not "saw" that last hope, so that should count for all. It should… But this is not the case, not today, then it would be possible if we only wanted to use it with enough willpower - it only helps me a little.

But I must quickly concluded, otherwise, I retomberais in my prolixity the other day.

Very affectionately.

Your Lou.

As Yearbook became good and interesting! Juice-only reports ³⁵, especially that of Ferenczi and Rank. Remarkable as the work of Jones and Abraham as an accompaniment to your two papers ³⁶.

35. In 6^and volume Yearbook, Ferenczi had a report on "the general theory of the neuroses", Rank one on the many books on the "Interpretation of Dreams". (These reports were reviewing the "progress of psychoanalysis 1909 to 1913. ") The work of Jones theme : "The design for the ear of the mother of the Virgin. A contribution to the relationship between art and religion. »L'essai d'Abraham s'intitule : "Limitations and modifications of voyeurism neurotics. Notes about similar events in the collective psychology " (trad. fr. in Complete Works de Karl Abraham, flight. II, Payot, 1966).

36. This is the sixth volume of Yearbook appeared as "On Narcissism" and "Contribution to the history of the psychoanalytic movement".

F

Prof.. Dr Freud

the 2 December 1914 Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19

Cher Ami,

Received your letter today. Also regrets the interruption of the analysis so promising. We must remember that everything has been done to ensure that trees do not grow to the sky *. En revanche, if the war had not come, you would not have had the opportunity to spend your vacation in Vienna, for my part, I may be hesitant to entrust me with you. The state of affairs remains unpleasant.

You must not conclude my silence about the dream of Lot's wife that this : I wanted to wait to send this small publication, before I comment on it. Why should I oppose ?

Sachs was released today, soon as we hope to Rank, who defends himself like a lion against the relatively cheerful letters home from the two boys who are in Salzburg and Klagenfurt ². My wife home tomorrow Hamburg. Rank will send a circular letter addressed to me that Jones ³.

I have no idea abandoned my visit to Papa. I await your information on opportunities rail. It would still not immediately, considering my work. My fate in this respect was similar to that of the Germans in the war. The first success was an ease and a surprising extent ; I was therefore led to further, and now I have come to things so hard and opaque I'm not sure to overcome. War let me, anyway, time for all experiments, but I am now as a result of current difficulties and I can not say anything. It is to go further in the problems I had stopped in sexual Theory.

Customer is clearly lower than in its infancy and is therefore entitled to a total neglect of mine. I have exactly two patients, both Hungarian !

With my cordial greetings and waiting for your new,

your Freud

* Proverb as well as Austrian Hungarian to say that there are limits to everything.

1. Hanns Sachs was reformed because of his myopia, but he was called again, and Rank, during the summer of the following year (Jones, II, p. 188).
2. This is Martin, who stayed longer than expected in Salzburg (see 498 F) and was mobilized in January 1915 (Freud to Eitingon, 17.1.1915, Sigmund Freud Copyrights, Wivenhoe [henceforth : SFC]) and that Ernst, since 8 October 1914, was his military training in the artillery in Klagenfurt (capital of the province of Carinthia, in the south of present day Austria).
3. It is probably mentioned in the letter 519 F.

72 It

Hatvan, the 2 December [1914]^a

Dear Professor,

once again on the road, following the evacuation of northern Hungary our hospital was also transferred, we need to move to a small town on the Danube, Fadd ; we expect here, at Hatvan, final order. In this expectation, was easily discovered the impression that more often feel useful in determining existing series in psychoanalysis and in the larger series where it is currently. – Would it be immodest, dear Professor, ask you a few allusions to the work that you now occupy? – The interests of psychoanalysis, repressed by the huge pressure these days of July and August, begin to make noise and want to be "back¹ ». –

Rank, Sachs, Reik they are already past the review board ?

Many greetings to you and yours from your

dedicated M. Eitingon

1. Military Postcard.
2. Underlined in the manuscript letters uppercase and separated.

1. Referring to the concept of "return of the repressed" that Freud had standardized 1896 (1896b, p. 401-403).