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Berggasse 19,
Vienna IX,
26.2.1911
Dear Dr Pfister,
What an abundance of work in all stages of development and completion. I knew nothing of course about your London contacts. Things now seem to be moving in England; I recently received an invitation to be put up as corresponding member of the Society for Psychical Research.
As for your nun now quartered with the Zentralblatt,1 I should have published her long ago, but I seldom actively intervene, there is a shortage of space as it is, and the two editors always have special wishes of their own. But I shall press them. I have all sorts of things in mind for the Zentralblatt which are not yet ready to be talked about.
That you should be holding anything back in expectation of my rules and maxims upsets me greatly. I feel so far away from them, and suspect that their turn will not come for years. The Paranoia2 will be appearing in the next Year Book, and in the summer (at Karlsbad) I hope to be able to work on a part of the big synthesis (vicissitudes of the libido)3 which interests me most at present. So you will have to rely on your own resources, the maxims are not yet ripe. Thirst cannot wait so long as that.
In Vienna there has been a small crisis of which I have not yet told Jung. Adler4 and Stekel have resigned, and next