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Berggasse 19,
Vienna IX,
16.10.1910
My dear Dr Pfister,
I hope you have already consoled yourself about Sch. [sic.]1 The warning cannot do any harm. About L. I know nothing yet. The battle is now really warming up, and single leadership is really necessary. If Jung were at home, I should have to write to him daily. I know where he is from the picture postcards he sends me, but not when he is returning.
I have at last ‘made nerve contact’2 with Bleuler and received a long letter from him in reply. He seems to be satisfied with my step and wants a personal discussion. Perhaps I shall arrange to come to Zürich over Christmas if he does not mind the holiday's being disturbed. His arguments, it seems to me, are superficial. The ‘intolerant sect’ allegation is easy to refute; the intolerance is really not on our side. If my friends are now ready to accept what I say, that is only because they have found so much of it to be borne out, and a natural compensation for the incredulity which I encountered for ten years. Whether a continuation of the correspondence with Bleuler will lead to anything I cannot judge. In any case the criticism of his negativism in the Korrespondenzblatt3 was not entirely appropriate. The place for a controversy of this kind is the scientific journal, the new Zentralblatt if the Year Book is excluded as being edited by him. Publishing it in the Korrespondenzblatt associates him with other opponents who are exposed to kicks there. There is plenty of occasion now for internal controversy, which will be continually renewed, but controversy with the outside world distracts attention. Building the temple with one hand and with the other