Kurt wrote letters, and kept carbon copies of them in his archive. This letter to Ron (?) is dated September 1, 1966, which is during the time Kurt was teaching at UCLA. Rod may have been a student, or perhaps a colleague, and had sent Kurt a paper about a proposed symposium entitled The Human Agenda (Part II). Kurt’s reply is generous and interesting, as he raises issues of life, psychology, relationships and art. “Which is to ask, the more we love, should we expect our psychic intimacy with work (or with art) to increase or to decrease—since psychic intimacy surely requires some expenditure of human resources, (not to mention mere time, etc.) This leads to a question of whether our capacity for psychic intimacy is in some way fixed or not—alternatively developing in the mentally more healthy individual as a total capacity, which is strengthened by its (mutually stimulating) fulfillment in any or all of the various basic human activities.”
