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It is in easy English and will be good for her English study. It is a good
study of my Sadism disguised in humour.
Your stomach theory is completely proved by the stomachs of the
children here. The repressed ones have stomachs like wooden boards,
but children begin to loosen up very quickly, and at once begin to be
hateful and savage. They kill off their enemies (family ones) eagerly in
the form of cushions and dolls, and I feel sure that their analysis should
be only the active one of doing things without any attempt by me to
make unconscious things conscious. The things that matter are outside
the school's control. Some kids I can do nothing with because the home
is impossible.
Now don't get alarmed that I am dangerously experimenting with
Reichism. I have learned much from you but have a million things to
learn yet Now that Chamberlain is being beaten slowly by the elections
here, war with Hitler seems nearer, and I dare not even think of coming
back to you in summer. If you can have me at Easter I have four
weeks then.
- I •
Oslo, Norway
November 23, 1938
Dear Neill,
I got your letter. Hope Prof. Wright is not the physiologist
who told me in 1934 that I was crazy, because I said that skin surface
shows electrical phenomena which it may be possible to measure. I
thank you very much for all the things you are doing for me. Now I have
sent off slides to five different places in the world. Something must
happen now-at least contradictory statements. While great men are
declaring my thoughts to be nonsense, I cannot keep up with the
investigations which my cancer mice compel me to. But among the
slides I sent you are a few which cannot fail to be recognized for what
they are. You certainly oppose my distrust toward scientists. But you
will see, it will become still worse. Did you read the history of the
Curies?
Why should reading my Character Analysis disturb you? Psycho
therapy is a rotten business, as you state yourself, mentioning the
parents and other circumstances. My "system" is nothing but something
to hold on to.