ALS in German, signed “Freud,” one page, 8.25 x 10.75, personal letterhead, December 25, 1908. Letter to "My dear Colleague," Friedrich Salomon Krauss, the publisher of Zeitschrift fur Sexual-Wissenschaft [Journal of Sexology], asking him to publish a text by his pupil Sandor Ferenczi. In full (translated): "I congratulate you for the merging of your journal with that of [Magnus] Hirschfeld, as I expect it will strengthen its significance in a very special manner, and I am also satisfied with the strengthening of your own position. Today, I would like to ask you to send to press a small but very important article prepared by our colleague Ferenczi, from Budapest, who wrote it partly under my influence. This theoretical work is entitled ‘Introjection and Transference.’ It will have only a few pages but, for a number of reasons, it should appear a few months before a paper of mine to be published in the ‘Annual of Psychoanalytical Research.’ Therefore, February or March, or at the latest April, should be the date for your publication.” In fine condition, with a few creases.
Krauss, the recipient of this letter, was an Austrian sexologist whose work included a translation of Artemidorus’s ‘Interpretation of Dreams,’ which Freud cited in his influential book The Interpretation of Dreams. Sandor Ferenczi and Sigmund Freud first met in early 1908, the same year as this letter, beginning a long personal and professional relationship. Ferenczi immediately embraced psychoanalysis and soon published his first work, ‘Introjection and Transference,’ the subject of this letter. Rounding out Freud's concept of projection, Ferenczi described ‘introjection,’ a word he coined, as the powerful aspect in the formation of the internal world and the internal object. ‘Introjection and Transference’ is now considered a masterpiece of psychoanalytical literature.
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