Freud à Sabina Spielrein

15 may 1914 Vienna, IX, Berggasse 19

Dear Madam,

Now you also become dinguo( 20) and with the same symptoms as your predecessors ! I received one day, without suspecting anything, a letter from Madame Jung²¹ telling me that her husband was convinced that I wanted him. This was the beginning; the end, you know. And your argument that I would not have sent yet no patient ? This has manifested itself in exactly the same way in which Adler believed persecuted because I sent him no patient. Do not you recognize that this mechanism is known to grow abused a person in order to make then responsible (22) ? For at least six months, I have not had a single customer in Berlin, and also that I had not been able to send. I have great difficulty in taking care of my young people in Vienna. Half of analysts and all those who are not enjoying themselves to insult me, how you wonder why after all neurotics do not come to me to indicate to doctors. I do not know if Abraham could do much, but I am sure he will take into account your wishes if you do not you keep too much outside activities Association.

After the relationships we have had so far, what do you think I have against you ? Is there something else here that the expression of your bad conscience that he could not release you from your idol ? Think again and write me what you think.

I cordially greet you, Freud

20. Freud uses an original expression Yiddish, passed through the use Viennese : "Bonkers", meaning, today, something equivalent to our modern "crazy" (or "crazy") (N.d.t.).

21. Cf. correspondence S. Freud - Emma Jung in S. Freud, C.G. Young, Correspondence, op.cit., t. II, p. 209 sq. (it is the letter of 30 October 1911).

22. Cf. Totem et tabou, ed. fr., p. 63, G.W. IX, p. 64, S.E. XIII, p. 50.

Vienna, IX, Berggasse 19

13-5-14.

Cher ami,

Thank you very much for your long letter. Meantime, I was sick again, and I have absolutely no respite, as if the torments and work wanted me to wear!

The last access my intestinal pain brought my "personal physician ⁽¹⁾ "To undertake, on the safe side, rectoscopique examination, after which he congratulated me warmly as if I concluded that he had taken for highly probable carcinoma.

So it is nothing to this time; I must continue my wade. We have not even decided this summer. One, Rank as proposed, you adopt 20 and 21 September (Sunday) for Congress, we can have our private meeting the 19, I can see my lecture at Leiden 23 about, and then I will go see my daughter and grand-son in Hamburg. A Hollande, my youngest daughter will make a leap to me from England; Well then I will more than Berlin interval between two trains.

Pending, I promise to record your visit after your excursion in the Dolomites. Maybe we'll all Dresden.

See you as president definitive, this is indeed what I want personally. I know all that we have to wait for your energy, your correction and your conscientiousness (pleasant contrast with your predecessor). Somewhere else, It is argued that the problem of relations with America and the importance to keep the group well all recent London, speak in favor of Jones. Under these conditions, I want you to leave all care to make a decision that will take place during our Pre-. It would be premature, in fact, to decide now. We can not know if the Swiss actually leave after the publication of the Jahrbuch, which should also affect the choice of the President. For my part, I would like to keep away, possibly, book me for some extreme. Your proposal honorary president either does not please me ; firstly, she has something that smells "retired", and second, the present time, overshadowed by crises, does not seem conducive to the honors are awarded. I do not want to miss, however, thank you cordially friendly idea. In calm weather and fertile, I would have gladly accepted. For the time being, the establishment of a chairman and a vice-president seems essential and the distribution of these two functions between you and Jones, alternating with short intervals (every two years), opportune. More, as I said, I am sure that the Committee will find a solution to this issue, without being disturbed by problems of personal ambition.

I feel truly mortified by my lack of enthusiasm and ability to work, and lasts from Easter. This week, I finally completed the proofreading of the first third of the "Contribution to Psychoanalytic Movement"; there was virtually nothing in this section to change. I did add an epigraph insert name and rank in a passage where praise was anonymous. I intend to change much in the third section.

All your works projects have my complete sympathy. I hope to have tomorrow, by Sachs, from you and Berlin.

Do not hurt, in this letter, the low level of morale and get my, you and yours, my cordial greetings.

Your Freud.

13 may 1914

69 Portland Court, London

Dear Professor Freud,

You thought, j’imagine, Sachs that would give me all the news from Vienna, and it gave me much. And the case of the Vereinsleitung been adjusted for the time of the most satisfactory, but we must prepare for the possibility of further trouble soon. Jung is not killed, but just temporarily defeated. In July, the prend the words devant the British Medical Association¹. He exercised a powerful attraction in America and perhaps in England, where ψα is still a sapling. For all these reasons, I hope you do not amenderez of your Referat Yearbook (2) one iota, because the issue was not only the Vereinigung.

Sachs says that your health improves, Wolfgang Ernst and overcame his original weakness, two good news, but your youngest daughter struggled to get rid of his cold ; I hope that the sea air of England will remove the last traces, s'il in subtract³.

Attached letters received from Abraham. Business does not seem very bright in America, although I was delighted to see that the 13 items advertised in the program of the American Psychopathological Association, one and all por-Taient on a theme of ψα, 11 is positive and 2 only negative⁴. MacCurdy, on which I had high hopes, seems to have shown a dark side in the case of Herbert Jones (surely jealousy, because it is very gay), and this bodes ill for its activity ψα, where the character is at least as important as intellect. No new Putnam for two months, but I wrote recently - also requesting permission to publish his excellent article in the last Magazine (5).

Loe wrote a long letter this week, after three months of silence, but I'd love to know what effect you had on it the sad news of the death of his aunt, which was really a beautiful woman. This is yet another case of death due to causes, ultimately, psychic (Do you remember talking to me about this one night, at a late hour), as was that of Scott's Antarctic expedition⁶, I discovered that. Loe decision about his marriage did not surprise, because it was the only sensible decision, and I am delighted. However, I can not be very optimistic about its future, because it does not waiver cera-morphine, though I pray with all my heart it may have a few years of happiness. She continued treatment until the end of your working season ?

The history of the’Work of Jekels was fun, quoique un peu contrariante. It can encourage me to write my book on Napoleon for Fonts, Perhaps at the end of this year after the Congress will⁷. Do you think I should sacrifice other work it ?

I will pass this summer to write a small book on The treatment of neuroses Ferenczi and translate⁸. Then I signed the contract to produce next year (the end) a big book on ψα for a scientific audience, but not medical, and this will require an immense⁹. Besides these tasks, I have enough others to fill the free time of my evenings.

Sir Ed. Durning-Lawrence has died¹⁰. I dined with him there for about a month¹¹, and he assured me that Bacon wrote Shakespeare not only all, but all Spenser and Marlowe (he paid the same way to use their name), and he also supervised the translation of the Bible ! ! Peace to his ashes ! The passage, we found another set of contemporary references, where the name is written Shackspere¹², thus confirming what you told me about Jacques-Pierre^13.

Sachs wrote you about London, who enchants. His company is a great pleasure to me.

Affectionately to you

Jones.

1. Young (1914),

2. Freud (1914 d).

3. Allusions to Freud's nephew, the son of Sophie, et à Anna Freud, who was about to go to England.

4. The fifth meeting of the American Psychopathological Association was held in Albany, NY, 6 may 1914.

5. Putnam (1914 b).

6. Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912), naval officer and explorer, led the fateful second expedition to the South Pole (1910-1913) ; see Scott’s Last Expedition : The Personal Journals of Cap­tain R. F. Scott, C. In. O., R.N., on his Journey to the South Pole, 2 flight., London, Smith, Elder, 1913.

7. Ludwig Jekel (1867-1954), Viennese psychoanalyst, devoted to a brief study Napoleon (Jekels, 1914). Jones was never published his essay on Napoleon Bonaparte.

8. Jones (1920 b, 1916 b).

9. See letter 156, note 5.

10. Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence (1837-1914), death 21 April, claimed that Francis Bacon was behind Shakespeare ; see his Bacon Is Shakespeare, London, Gay & Hancock, 1910.

11. In Jones (1957 a, p. 429; 1957 b, p. 460), Jones dinner date this 1913.

12. The c is emphasized two features in the original.

13. See letter 20.

473 Iron

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Dear Professor,

Brioni since I feel physically well, which, home, does not keep pace with productivity (of thought). Hence the problem of enuresis, some ideas came to me on "amphimixis of partial drives" during the installation of the primacy of the genital area ⁽¹⁾. I resolved not to break the thing, this time, in oral narratives or correspondence, but to write and send you as free associations on this topic, without worrying about possibly make me ridiculous.

The unanimous conclusion of the presidential election surprised me. Y he treachery hidden behind this ⁽²⁾?

Dr.. Ophuijsen, I received the attached map ⁽³⁾, to which I replied in a spirit of appeasement, but not without noting that, according to the numbers of the Zeitschrift already published, he could realize that we are not afraid (when something requires) to go before unceremoniously ; that can give us confidence when we ensure that there was, this time, no reason to do.

The practice works well.

Greetings from your Ferenczi

(1) Par amphimixie, Ferenczi heard the "fusion of two or more eroticism into one unit higher", for example, "The fusion of eroticism, anal and urethral, in genital eroticism ". "Thalassa, essay on the theory of genitality " (1924, 268), Psychoanalysis, III, p. 258. In this work, Ferenczi developed ideas which concern since 1910 already (see 155 Iron).

(2) Ferenczi's surprise for the two presidents who were not part of the Committee : Maeder à Zurich Seif et à Munich. Maeder had agreed to become interim president Abraham "in terms very helpful", Seif "in a manner laconic", as Freud wrote to Abraham, the 7 In 1914 (Correspondance Freud Abraham, p. 148)

(3) Not found.

472 F

Prof.. Dr. Freud

the 12 may 1914 Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19

Cher Ami,

I did not write these days, because I would not know what to tell you. You remember my discomfort Brioni. Soon after, laryngitis expressed, which is mounted to the nose ; it is now almost healed. The 6 evening, perhaps favored by an excess of festivities, acute intestinal crisis is declared, decided that Dr.. Branch ¹ à I rectoscopier, then congratulate me! He confessed that I had not yet assumed that the neoformation, but only one of peracute inflammation Romanum ². And here I am back to life and I can write you again. I am also subjectively better now than before these diseases.

Meantime, the case of the presidency was, as you know, markedly trench. Abraham will soon tackle the task, to give us the number of Korrespondenzblatt. I had, also, correspondence with him about the date of the congress, which would be very inconvenient early September. Himself believes to see 20-21 September; we will meet one day before, Congress in private. Then I can make my presentation in Leiden ³ to 23, and then leave for Hamburg. Our projects are quite been suspended by my illness and the uncertainty of whether Zweig recommend a cure.

My best wishes on the occasion of your move. The tournament attracted many projected me; I will certainly encourage R.[ank] and S.[achs] to get there.

Brioni since I do not work at all. Yesterday I started correcting my "History of the movement". When you come here the next time, you can see a gallery as ψα in Worcester ⁴. Stanley Hall, after work today received, went to Adler.

I cordially greet you, you and Mrs. G.

Your Freud alive

1. Walter Branch (1872-?). Lecturer in Vienna, specialist in gastrointestinal diseases. Freud jokingly called her "Leibarzt", literally : medical body, but also meaning : My favorite doctor. Freud â Abraham you 13 In 1914, Freud-Abraham Correspondance, p. 181.
2. Old term for a part of the colon.
3. Jelgersma Freud invited to lecture at the University of Leiden, fall.
4. Perhaps an allusion to the photographs taken at the seminar held in Worcester psychological. Freud à Abraham you 9 III 1914, Freud-Abraham Correspondance, p. 170.

* Berlin W, Rankestrasse 24

10.5.14.

Dear Professor,

It is my great joy and great satisfaction that yourself, dear Professor, and our closest friends have thought of me for the Presidency; I thank you cordially for your trust. In fact, I had expressed its readiness to provide interim. But you seem to want me as permanent president. I've thought long. I do not redo my first proposal (Jones), because I realize that London is too eccentric and direction Korrespondenzblatt since there would be made very difficult. A vrai say, the most important objection against my presidency is to yourself. When a splinter group called abuse of psychoanalysis, yourself should be the head of the legitimate movement, so that everyone knows what is there in Freudian psychoanalysis. When we talked about this winter, you were of the opinion. On the other hand - and, lately, I discussed this with Sachs - should not that new tasks against you. But I found a solution and I hope that you will find practical. I will undertake specific tasks to the Presidency, me or who is finally chosen; my proposal would, however, you are officially in the head and that you ran the scientific congress. I think we should, as is done elsewhere in other scientific associations, give you the honorary presidency of permanent. As for me personally, I will not dwell on the feeling of my shortcomings, because I feel able to do better than my predecessor. But I remember the first congress : their excellent atmosphere and a lot of other things, they were your guidance. Even with the best will in the world, nobody else can give us the congress he lost character in Munich. Current reports and chairing sessions devolve the current President as, as well as all current affairs during the year. The exercise of your function is limited to the two-day conference, and you might even be replaced if the load is too heavy you; but this can hardly happen. Sachs immediately found this proposal very satisfactory. I would be delighted if you acquiesciez you too.

Having long been the trials of the article Federn, I thought printing Jahrbuch went well. I hope that no delay will occur.

Reik gave us a very nice presentation on male layers ⁽¹⁾; he wants to develop this work and give the Jahrbuch under the title : "Rites of the Father". Stärke sent me his large manuscript 18 placards, which was previously Jung. I examine carefully, but we can hardly take, not even partially, Stärke as now proposed.

I think, by our meeting this summer, everything will be settled in Switzerland. The publication of your "History" in the Jahrbuch push Jung (with him and his) to withdraw. Congress, then, will be a pleasure for us.

I am preparing for Imago work on greetings ⁽²⁾. Congress - if it goes the way we want - I want to talk about psychoanalytic therapy for mental illness.

Cordial greetings to you and yours, from my wife also.

Votre Karl Abraham.

(2) Apparently never published.

52 F

Dear Doctor

I find it touching that you remember that time that begins to awaken in me dark thoughts. I do not want to admit that I do not have the same labor as before and yet I can not hide probably much longer. Ars longa, life brevis (1). Guard small but determined friends and supporters continue my work is my consolation.

Accept my thanks from the heart and recommend me to your dear wife.

Your faithful Freud

* Vienna, IX, Berggasse 19

7-5-14.

Cher ami,

You are now our president. We turn Association and we will not let it escape soon.

Maeder has agreed terms very helpful, Seif¹ a laconically. The official report of voting results will be sent by Rank, probably tomorrow.

I now propose to prepare a Korrespondenzblatt ⁽²⁾ which can be placed in the number 4 de la magazine. (The 3 is almost completed.) I ask you, in the preamble of your proclamation, not omit to say that the previous Central ceased operations since Munich and did not even provide a single report for Congress.

I continue not to be good and want to work without; I expect the events of the Jahrbuch, who do not come, despite all reminders. I will say a lot, I atténuerai also some.

I still have no idea what we will do this summer.

Heller has languished on the poor state of our subscriptions to two magazines. The printers' strike has certainly done much harm; but it must be good.

I hope your little ones are now fully rested, and you and your wife are as befits your youth and good agreement. I had 58 ans here. Sincerely.

Your Freud.

1. D^r The. Seif, psychoanalyst in Munich.

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Dear Professor,

The past week has been for me as a state of war. I swam round moving-the 1^he to 2^and floor (address remains unchanged : Elisabethring 54); together, I renewed my installation. I had to carry out all these changes - which are also not yet fully completed – without interfering with the analytical work, that I have succeeded in large- pain. Books are still Collage - yet, it is just now that I had to write the report for the Jahrbuch; I did memory and I had to search for references afterwards. Hitschmann but seems satisfied with the work.

Jung's resignation touched me very pleasantly. You do not ask me-dez, I believe, assent "official" to your proposals, with which I completely agree.

Dr.. Jaszi (Lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Head of the Radical Youth [1]) has always been that I consent to draft a detailed survey of psychoanalysis. We agreed to two conferences, this fall, the Company Sociopolitical ; I talk about the current state of psychoanalysis, Rank Sachs et (and allemand), applications of psychoanalysis to the mental sciences². [^A That said, I made the addition without the innkeeper and I don't know if R.[ank] and S.[achs] are willing to come to Budapest.] Jaszy wants to invite a number of people (including opponents) to participate in the discussion and tasked me to answer them. I think that the three of us, it is easy to knock out opponents (that, definitely, are not even aware of the basics of ψα).

I look forward to your information on the response of "directors".

Greetings from

Ferenczi your

A. Brackets in original.

1. Oszkar Jaszi (1875-1957), important figure of the radical Hungarian, in 1914, President of the Radical Party. He was secretary of the League of Social Sciences, Director of the School of Social Sciences and free editor Huszadik Szazad (XX^and century). In 1918, became a member of the State Council and Minister without portfolio in the government Karolyi. In 1919, Professor of Sociology at the University of Budapest. During the Republic of Councils, sous Béla Kun, he emigrated to Vienna, then, in 1925, moved to the United States, where he taught at Oberlin College (Ohio).

2. Rank and Sachs were not only editors of the journal Imago, but had also published a book together on the subject : The significance of psychoanalysis for the Humanities (The importance of psychoanalysis to the sciences of the mind), Wiesbaden, 1913.

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best wishes for tomorrow anniversary year of health and happiness full of fresh flowering tree branches on your work with warm greetings from me and my wife your Eitingon =

a. Telegram (Form I/1910).

1. The classification of the telegram this year is uncertain.