ABSTRACT
At the start of 1914, none of the psychoanalysts of the time seems to have had the slightest suspicion of what was awaiting them. In their letters there is no trace of unease about the political situation. This was one of the high points of Karl Abraham's psychoanalytic career and of his contact with S. Freud. All his attention was focused there. After Jung withdrew as editor-in-chief of the Jahrbuch fur Psychoanalyse in late 1913, Freud asked Abraham to take over that task. The Abrahams were very hospitable. Among their visitors were many fellow analysts. Hilda Abraham was particularly fond of Theodor Reik, who was devoted to her father. It was Freud who had advised Reik to turn to Abraham. Abraham was so absorbed in his work and his new central position in the world of psychoanalysis that the possibility of war does not seem to have occurred to him.
