1st Feb 33

My dear Prof Freud,

I am extremely grateful to you for your kind interest in my work.  I shall be very glad to send you a suitable paper on the theory of the opposite wish for the consideration of the psycho-analytic group in Europe.  It is really very good of you to say that you will have it translated in Vienna.  I shall expunge the popular portions of the article that I sent you, and shall add and alter certain materials by which I hope the article will meet your requirements.  I shall try to elucidate the points raised in your letter, such as the dynamic aspect of the theory, the explanation of repression and of anxiety.  Of course I do not say that my theory will explain all the different facts of anxiety phenomena as known to us in connection with normal and abnormal life.  But I do hope that I shall be able to give you a fairly satisfactory

explanation on the basis of my theory.  I further hope that I shall be able to show to you that my explanations of repression are simpler and more satisfactory than the current views about it.  In fact I claim that the theory of the opposite wish is specially suited to explain repression.  (Besides wish which by my very definition is a dynamic mental element I admit no other psychic factor capable of bringing about a modification in a given psychic constellation.  My theory of perception is based on my theory of wish.)  I have not been able to follow what you mean by saying that the theory lacks a third dimension.  I shall be very thankful if you will kindly let me know what other points you require me to elucidate further.