* 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).

520 Iron

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS Edited by Professor D^r Sigm. Freud editors : Dr. S. Ferenczi, Budapest, VII. Elisabethring 54/ Dr. Otto Rank, Vienna IX / 4, Simondenkgasse 8 Verlag Hugo Heller & C °, Vienna, The. Farmers Market N ° 3 Subscription Price : year-round (6 Notebooks, 36-40 Bow) K 21.60 = MK. 18.

Potato, the 30 November 1914

Dear Professor,

The only disruption in our relationships - not quite negligible - due to the analysis begun manifests itself in this that I find difficult to match the tone for our. I oscillate between an ordinary letter and confession analytical writing, until resistance is expressed in this oscillation prevails, and the letter is not written at all.

You to share was a way to escape this difficulty. But you will understand and forgive you if, in my letters, self-centeredness of the neurotic lasts a long time.

I must tell you immediately experience this order, quite subjective, and yet in relation to world events. A lieutenant of hussars came today and told that Miskolcz military hospitals there had been evacuated. Nothing that the war has so far not terrible product gave me a strong impression that a new danger threatening the city of my fathers (more precisely : threatening, car this danger-in the meantime there seems to have been removed). You can imagine how this striking proof of my childhood attachment to the homeland surprised me. The rest, you again demonstrating your theory, namely that in fact, there is no love of country [Patriotism], but only a love of the city father ("Paternal love of the city") [Hometown love], There arise opportunities socio- interesting psychological on intimate relationship between narcissism and local patriotism on the one hand, between object-love and internationalism on the other. Being born and being raised in a small town has an inhibitory effect - it seems - on the development, in the sense of fixing the patriotism narcissistic.

The work I undertook (the translation of the Theory of Sexuality)¹ advances only slowly. Disturbances of all kinds. Sometimes the hostess (Madame la Comtesse Eszterhazy, née Andrassy ²) arrived here in the meantime, comes and invites me to chat with her, sometimes I'm called to the barracks as a medical advisor for the commander polypragmatique * recently installed. More, obviously, I gladly let me disturb and do not rush back to my table.

I must admit that the news of your hard work did not only brought joy, but also a bit of shame to my lifestyle. It was not until the last few days (probably under the influence of the change in command) I think more often untenable character of this. Prospects for change are still very uncertain.

The latest theory sexual surprised me for a very small proportion, since most of the changes were already in preparation ; I pushed myself through the drawing up of certain details (and the reciprocal influence of erogenous zones and their relation to the sublimation)³, in a formulation less successful. In any of your works of scientific accuracy and objectivity dispassionate not expressed as clearly as in the theory of sexuality. We feel that every word is weighed more accurate ; it is the backbone of the entire edifice of psychoanalysis. The translation gives me great pleasure ; in this way, it 'owns' the work, so to speak.

Great discoveries you speak the more acute my eagerness to get to Vienna. However, it is impossible to know when I can leave, because we expect a visit from a general. Est-il Qu'en your project to come here some day ? One way or another : I want to read soon the great clinical history and hear about the great discoveries. Although my productivity has dried (definitely not, I hope), my understanding of the creations of others is not yet lost, at least not for now. - The railway between Vienna and Dad is very convenient - the outward and return. Please be advised that all trains contained in the indicator do not move between Györ and Dad, I'll tell you exactly which soon.

I end this letter, because I'm at all times threatened to skid on the analytically.

Just this again : the idea of ​​a link between the announcement of the death ⁴ and Jung's prophecy actually comes from Mrs. G., but I have not rejected. The other idea (la guerre, etc.), I had also, also. (Clearly a piece of this vision ** qu'a the son for the death of father !) My "occult" is clearly separated from the rest of knowledge and do not in any way interfere ; it is free of any mysticism.

Sincerely !

Ferenczi

Should I publish the dream of columns salt and analytical interpretation of Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt ? I interpret your silence about this as a sign that you did not like ; or is it that I'm wrong ?

* We retain the term coined by Ferenczi, which could have the meaning of "versatile".

** In French in the text.

1. T see. The, 284 Iron and notes 8.
2. Ilona Andrassy (1886-1967), Pal wife Eszterhazy (see 549 Iron and notes 1).
3. See Freud 1905d : Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, on. cit. It is about the sublimation p. 70-71 and p. 178. However, Freud took over two passages from the first edition without changing.
4. Emanuel, half-brother of Freud.

207

[Postcard (1)]

29 November 1914

69 Portland Court London

Dear Professor,

Hopefully you have received my letter. I suggest, the question of the [Uber ⁽²⁾] «History» – Translation to leave Brill, he will know prefer-ably, as it is in America. (Journal u. Review, etc.) I would love to hear, Rank or whether Sachs […⁽³⁾] must engage.

Here all is well. No news.

With kindest regards to all friends,

Your faithful

Jones ⁽⁴⁾.

I hope you received my letter. I suggest you leave the question of the Brill translation of the «History» ; it is best placed to know what it is in America, {Journal and Review, etc.). I want to know if Rank and Sachs must be mobilized.

All is well here. Nothing new.

My warmest greetings to all friends,

Your faithful

Jones. »

2. Lined in the original.

3. Several illegible letters scratched.

4. On the map, Van Emden added this note : "Magazines for Jones I have not received from you. Many warm greetings from your devoted J. in. Emden. » (Have not received your magazines for Jones. With my sincere friendships, respectfully to you, J. in. Emden.)

519 F

Prof.. Dr Freud

the 25 November 1914 Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19

Cher Ami,

Your photo starry, that just happened, precipitates the answer I owe you. First I want to blame you for thinking something as foolish as predicting Jung, on one occasion as inappropriate. You are much more deeply immersed in the occult that we think. If so, do you think that he is the war itself that the oracle was alluding ? If it continues and it kills me, in one way or another, but propre superstition, you know, on the figures, will still won the (1).

I have also sent the last corrections of the sexual theory which you learned some new insights ². Since we parted, I was very active. In addition to the clinical history, strong in its one hundred and twelve sheets, something else is on the way, which do not yet speak. It still works when everything else was so completely rested his head. I will tell you only, on che-mins long routes, I finally found the solution to the riddle of time and space, and the mechanism for so long sought unbinding Since then the anguish, it is true, there is a certain laziness.

Rank most likely to escape review board and will then do its work on the epic ψα ⁴. Jones today sent a long letter via Emden, in which he brings in a lot of personal things and judge the outcome of the war with the narrowness of the English ; He also mentions, projects include work, the translation of your writing ⁵.

From Brill, there was a letter on his personal difficulties. It really behaves like the real dog in the manger * ⁶, he can do all the translations himself and does not delegate to anyone.

Mrs. Lou Salome mentioned today in a very intelligent writing⁷.

I hope to learn at the same time your promotion and your transfer, I cordially greet you and,

your Freud

* In French in the text.

1. Freud's concern regarding the date of his death. "The date it was first settled the age of forty-one and forty-two years, and subsequently, with more intensity, fifty-one years. In 1899, this is the age of sixty-one and sixty-two years began to worry, and 1936 it was the age of eighty-one years and a half. " (Max Schur, Death in Freud's life, trad. Brigitte Bost, Paris, Gallimard, 1975, p. 199. See also Letter from Freud to Jung's 16 April 1909, Freud. / Jung, correspondence, The, Paris, Gallimard, 1975, p. 295-297.)
2. The third edition contained essentially, over previous, three new parts : one of the infantile sexual curiosity (Freud, 1905d, p. 123-125), another on the developmental stages of the sexual organization, including by the establishment of an organization oral (on. cit., p. 127-132), a third of the libido theory, based primarily on Freud's article (1914c) dealing with narcissism (on. cit., p. 157-160). There are also the following enhancements : Freud's comments on the etiology of homosexuality (1905d, 2^and aligns the note en bas de page, p. 50sq) and fetishism (footnote on page, p. 63) ; notes on the secondary nature of masochism (p. 69 sq.) ; the definition of impulse "as psychic representation of a source of stimulation endosomatic" (p. 83) ; the distinction between sublimation and reaction formation (footnote on page, p. 101) ; discussion of the general characteristics of the problem to recognize the signs of sexual child (p. 104) ; available constitutionally reinforced as essential a manifestation child sexual. It appears by propping one of the vital functions of the body (p. 106) ; equation "stools gift-child" (p. 112) ; discussion of the concepts of "masculine" and "feminine" (p. 161) ; discussion between anaclitic object choice and narcissistic object choice (p. 165-166) ; establishment of an "eco-logical series" (which later became "complementary series") about the relative effectiveness of constitutional factors and accidental factors (p. 191-192).
3. Both issues have been previously addressed by Freud (the time and the space 1901a [The dream and its interpretation, trad. Helen Legros, Paris, Gallimard, coll. "Ideas", 1969, p. 64], that the unbinding of anxiety in 1895f ["A Critique of the anxiety neurosis"]) but in later times only (1920g) "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" (trad. S. Jankélévitch, Tests psychoanalysis, Paris, Payot, No PBP 15, p. 7-81 ; reference p. 34-35) and in (1926d) Inhibition, Symptoms and Anxiety (trad. Michel Tort, Paris, PUF, 1968). Jones thinks (Jones, II, p- 186) the problem of time and space refers to the design : "The first of these concepts [time] relates to the topography of the psyche, particularly those of the unconscious mind, while the second [space] is not in the unconscious, but remains confined to the deeper layers of the psyche aware. "Around the same time, Freud characterized the systems conscious (Cs) and unconscious (Ics) as follows : "All investments are something System Ics, the system Cs is the linking of these unconscious representations with representations of words that make possible the access to consciousness. » (Freud to Abraham, 21 XII 1914, Cor-respondence, on. cit., p. 210.)
4. Otto Rank : « Homer, Psychological contributions to the history of the folk epic, I » (Contributions psychological history of the genesis of the popular epic), Image, 1917, 5, p. 133-169 ; "Psychological contributions to the history of the folk epic, II », ibid., p. 372-393. Rank wanted to present this work to the aggregation (Freud to Abraham, letter 11 XII 1914, Correspondence, on. cit., p. 208-209).
5. Letter from Jones to Freud, of 15 XI 1914 : «[…] obviously, Germany can not be truly overcome or defeat " (Correspondence, p. 197, English.) Translation of articles by Ferenczi Jones appeared under the title of Contributions to Psychoanalysis (Ferenczi, 1916 [186]) in R. G. Badger (Boston). New edition : First Contributions to Psychoanalysis, New York, Brunner-Mazel, 1980.
6. Reference to a piece of Lope de Vega, The Gardener's Dog, where the dog jealously guards his bone without being able to derive any benefit from his possession. The translation rights for English and American works of Freud were a source of constant conflict between Brill and Jones (see eg Jones, II, p. 47-48).
7. Letter 19 XI 1914 (Freud/Andreas-Salomé, Correspondence, Paris, Gallimard, 1970, p. 28-29).

Vienna, IX, Berggasse 19

25. XI. 14

Dear Madam,

As a letter between Vienna and Göttingen is currently six days, I think I can respond immediately without seeming intrusive. The offprint desired travel without going through censorship and had already happen to you.

What you write gives me the courage to add my voice to yours. I have no doubt that humanity will return also this war, but I do know that I and my contemporaries no longer see the world as a happy day. It is too ugly ; the sad part about it, is that it is exactly as we should have been representing the men and their behavior according to the expectations aroused by the ψα. It is because of this attitude towards men that I've never been able to attune your blissful optimism. I had found the secret of my soul since we saw the highest culture of our time so horribly tainted with hypocrisy, is organically, we were not made for this crop. It only remains for us to withdraw and the great unknown destiny that hides resume cultural experiences of the same kind with a new breed.

I know that science is dead in appearance, but humanity seems really dead. It is a consolation to think that our German people is he who is best in the circumstances involved ; Perhaps because he is confident of victory. The dealer before bankruptcy is always deceitful.

In mercredis, which you removed a lot of value by stating that other time, you would have participated, no longer take place twice a month. They take place peacefully and in a somewhat superficial. Many are busy with their duties, some are missing altogether. I secretly working on things ³³ very large and possibly rich content * ; lethargy after about two months, I have the freedom to make my interest and I feel very strongly that my head has taken advantage of the rest.

Two of my son³⁴ are in the army, both still training period in provincial towns.

I send you my affectionate remembrance and think with pleasure after the war, we need to meet again soon.

Yours Freud,

* “Extensive, perhaps content-rich matters.”

33. In a letter to Karl Abraham dated 21 December, Freud wrote at the end : "I could have finished a new theory of neurosis with chapters on the fate of impulses, repression and the unconscious, if I wanted to work had not succumbed to my bad mood. »

34. Martin Freud, Elder, Ernst Freud et, the youngest.

Iron ^A

Potato, the 24 November 1914

Dear Professor,

Enclosed is my portrait, so far still modest uniform medical assistant.

Cordially, Ferenczi

A. Postcard made by Ferenczi himself, representative in silhouette cut (bust profile) bonded on the left side to the correspondence reserved.

517 Iron

Potato, the 22 November 1914

Dear Professor,

My long silence must have been caused by resistance ; but I do not know what the update was.

The analytical point of view, My condition can now characterize the following : I feel quite comfortable in the military situation homosexual; something in me seems to perfectly accommodate. The reason, however, protested against this way of life and wasting time ; so, à Budapest, I switched everything possible to expedite my transfer. – Ailments night and dreams that accompany them betray something like this : if my dream job manages to reconcile, in one way or another, currents homosexual and heterosexual, then I sleep well and wake up refreshed and ready ; otherwise, my discomfort occur. - I would like to transcribe a dream Zeitschrift very interesting, otherwise, explains a biblical episode, that of the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah It follows from the analysis that Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt because she not only returned to see the cities in flames, but also because the salt symbolizes simultaneously perverse mode of sexual satisfaction in these cities (the cunnilingus, etc.). (Explanation, together, expression Hungarian : "Even an old goat willingly licks salt.")

I have a little more to do here in my duties, because I take my job seriously health. Whereby, I have already been proposed for promotion by Commander, so that I will soon give the title of "Chief of Staff".

Today, I get very expensive visitors to Budapest : Madame G. and sister ⁽²⁾ come see my home Dad.

Meantime, I was here incognito shamefully destroyed : young ladies did invite me to a conference on psychoanalysis. I hope that I can express my refusal, with my regrets, dating my letter of Budapest. – I must say, on the other hand, there are many obstacles to a mutation in the war.

Thank you for sending events. They are, so to speak, an exhortation not to forget the science. It is curious to see how many seem obvious, now, revolutionary ideas that they contain.

I got here session analysis. But the patient did not return after the first.

Already have detailed information about the death of your brother ? Madame G. and I have both thought, although we, the prophecy of Jung ^s. We hope that destiny will satisfy one accident in the family.

Sincerely your Ferenczi

1. Genesis, XIX, 1-26. There was no note found Ferenczi on this topic.

2. Sarolta Morando, born Altschul.

3. Allusion unthinned. But see 519 F and 520 F.