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thought of your theories. He replied: "I don't understand them." I
found that Flugel knew scarcely anything about your work, and
another psychoanalyst there, [Millais] Culpin, had never heard of you.
Hence I say that the first thing necessary in England is publicity. At the
present moment I think it would be possible for you to enter England
with all your instruments, but to bring your assistants at the same time
would possibly be impossible. That could be done I fancy only if some
university said your work was essential for them. That's why I am
approaching Haldane now.
It will be good if you can take me at the beginning of August.
•••Oslo, Norway
June 4, 1938
Dear N eiU!*
I do beg you to be extremely cautious in making any propa
ganda for the bion book as far as "authorities in the field" are con
cerned. Imagine if I were to send one of your excellent books, for
instance, to William Stern or Charlotte Btihlert by way of propaganda.
I would achieve the exact opposite.
For the time being, there is no question here of my residence permit
being refused. So give yourself plenty of time to look around. I think it
will be possible for me to take you already at the beginning of August.
So make your plans accordingly.
That the psychoanalysts do not understand my basic concept is a
story that is already 16 years old. Please don't even try to persuade
them. Please write again as soon as you know more.
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* Translated from the original German.
t Stern, a well-known German "authority" on youth psychology; BUhler, one
of the first women professors at the University of Vienna, lecturing on child
psychology.