ABSTRACT
I see that you want me to write a foreword for your book. Well, I cannot deny that about a year ago when I read your manuscript for the first time, I was sufficiently impressed by it to volunteer a preface. I must admit that I feel less ready now and approach the task with some hesitation. Still, I will not evade the assignment. There may even be some advantage in the fact that nearly a year has elapsed since I first read your psychoanalytic memoirs and that I have gained some emotional distance with regard to them. I can now see more clearly much that speaks against your work, or at least much that seems to speak against it. And since the questions I have about your book will probably also come to the minds of some of your readers, I can probably be most helpful by taking them up and by responding to them.
