Record of a Friendship

Summerhill School

Leiston, Suffolk

My dear Reich,

January 5, 1940

I got your two letters by the same post. They had taken over
three weeks to come over. But in neither letter did you say how the
work was progressing.
I don't know what to say about myself. After my operation my
Reflex seemed to disappear. I found an attractive friend, but my reflex
is never good enough, usually too early and unsatisfying. It is very dis­
appointing. So with my work. I realise that I was not long enough with
you to see the end of the treatment. With the war likely to spread to
a world war I see no chance of ever completing my analysis with you.

I keep hoping that my poorness in reflexes is due to the exhaustion after

the operation. And I know that I am infinitely more relaxed and less
afraid than I was before I went to you. My headaches have gone away
completely. I believe completely in your method and will carry on with
it till I come back to the great feeling of power and potency I had when

I returned from Oslo in summer.

Is anything Sex Pol* being published in U.S.A.? I long to see some­
thing new. Juditht says they are to publish a magazine twice yearly in
Oslo, but as it will be in Norwegian it won't help me.

• Sexual politics, Reich's term for the effects of political pressures on sexual
  attitudes and behavior and hence for any examination of the interconnection
  between the political structures of society and sexual-mental health.
  t Judith Bogen, a kindergarten teacher who had been studying and working
  with Reich in Norway.

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