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FREUD, SIGMUNDAn important autograph letter signed ("Freud"), to Dr. Emil Oberholzer, 3 October 1920, discussing the International Psychoanalytic Congress, and Oskar Pfister 4 pages on 2 sheets (11 3/8 X 8 3/4 in.; 290 X 225 mm, and 8 1/4 X 5 1/4 in.; 210 X 135 mm) in German. Wien, Ix., Berggasse 19 (Freud's stationery), 3 October 1920; minor toning, repair to corners where previously stapled affecting two or three letters, old folds. A letter from Freud to Dr. Emil Oberholzer—his patient and colleague—regarding pressing professional matters "Honored, dear Colleague..." Freud begins. "The evaluation of the motives which constrained you in not to attend our congress in the Hague are, of course, entirely your business. I can only say that we badly missed you all, and that, because of your absence, the Swiss group, represented almost entirely by Dr. Pfister, was very obliging towards the Dutch and English groups..." The 6th International Psychoanalytical Congress took place in The Hague in September of 1920. It was there that Freud gave his paper "Supplements to the Theory of Dreams," and seemingly lobbied for the newly-formed International Journal of Psycho-Analysis to become the standard in the field, and had been relying on Oberholzer's support. The letter then goes on to discuss how German membership will be handled moving forward, and how experienced psychoanalysts must protect themselves and their reputations against "unscrupulous physicians who want to analyze without having learned." Oberholzer was an early proponent and practitioner of Freudian dream- and psychoanalysis. In 1913 he received personal analysis from Freud, and continued to be psychoanalyzed extensively in the Freudian manner over a period of several years. Along with his wife, Mira Ginzburg, and Oskar Pfister, a swiss pastor, he founded the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis in 1919.