ABSTRACT
Arie van der Chijs was a Dutch neurologist and one of the pioneers of psychoanalysis in the Netherlands. In 1920, he attended a psychoanalytic congress for the first time, in The Hague. Karl Abraham and Eitingon would have liked the sixth psychoanalytic congress to take place in Berlin. On 4 January 1920, Abraham wrote to Jones that it would be impossible to hold a congress in The Hague. The Dutch psychoanalysts made huge efforts to make it possible for their colleagues to attend the congress in The Hague. Abraham saw relatively little of Freud for most of the year and it had become a tradition that they would reserve some time before a congress to talk to each other. One of the Dutch participants, who made a good impression at the congress with his original ideas and witty performance, was August Starcke. Melanie Klein had once attended a psychoanalytic congress as a guest, in Budapest in 1918.
