ABSTRACT
Karl Abraham gave a lecture on 13 March 1925, and it was broadly in line with his article 'Manifestations of the female castration complex' of 1921. The response of the gynaecologists to Abraham's lecture was extremely critical, but that did not bother Abraham in the least. Abraham wanted to visit Freud at Easter, but Freud prevented that. On 11 April 1925, Abraham received an eight-page letter from Theodor Reik. It was a cry for help concerning the ban on lay analysis. Abraham was asked, through Johan van Ophuijsen, to give three lectures in The Hague and Leiden in late May 1925. On 27 and 29 May, he lectured to a group of neurologists and students at the Leiden Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology. On 28 May, Abraham gave a lecture to The Hague branch of the Dutch Medical Association in front of a large audience, most of them doctors who had not been trained in psychoanalysis.
