Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Karl Abraham, 1907–1925 Analyzing Freud: Letters of H.D., Bryher, and Their Circle
The hostilities by which we are surrounded also remind us to hold together. Morton Prince, who has always been a kaleidoscopic character, is this time really lamentable. Where do the Americans expect to get with this fear of public prudery?…He always begins by over-compensating for his cowardice and then withdraws into it.…My warmest congratulations on that patient of yours whose analysis gives you so much pleasure!…There is only one worry.…It has often been my experience that precisely those cases in which I took an excessive personal interest failed, perhaps precisely because of this intensity. When such a “test” case succeeded, however, I found that the previously constituted jury withheld its approbation by its silence. The opportunity of demonstrating our skill will come eventually. (pp. 71–72)
I am old, often ill, and only work for 5 hours with students or patients. There isn’t a long waiting list anymore, clients in need of help prefer younger people. Until recently my fee was $25 an hour; as a result of the general impoverishment, I have lowered this to $20 or $15… some of my adult children are out of work and have to be assisted or supported. (p. 7)
The success of the “talking cure,” at least in her case, is located in her ability to transpose the drama of analysis she experienced with Freud into the “writing cure.”… Vulnerable in Vienna during the rise of Nazism, both H.D. and Freud used psychoanalysis not as a hermetically sealed realm of escape from the gathering storm but as a means of understanding the foundations of violence and desire in the human psyche and their manifestation in the dialectical play of eros and thanatos on the larger stage of history. (p. 538)
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