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Freud, S. (1907). Letter from Sigmund Freud to C. G. Jung, November 15, 1907. The Freud/Jung Letters: The Correspondence Between Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung, 98-99

Letter from Sigmund Freud to C. G. Jung, November 15, 1907

Sigmund Freud

52 F

15 November 1907, Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19

Dear friend and colleague,1

I always find that my day has begun well when the post brings me an invitation to a meeting of the society you have named after me; unfortunately it is usually too late for me to take the express and arrive on time. What you say of your inner developments sounds reassuring; a transference on a religious basis would strike me as most disastrous; it could end only in apostasy, thanks to the universal human tendency to keep making new prints of the clichés we bear within us. I shall do my best to show you that I am unfit to be an object of worship. You probably think that I have already begun. In my last letter I was irritable and sleepy; soon afterward I pulled myself together and said to myself very much what you point out to me in your letter, to wit, that we have every reason for satisfaction. And besides, we must not make the mistake of judging the ferment exclusively by the literary bubbles it sen

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