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Berggasse 19,
Vienna IX,
20.4.1911
Dear Dr Pfister,
How delightful of you to remember me at Easter. Thank you for the news about your work and the interest it is
rousing. I knew nothing about your contacts with Meumann;1 nowadays I read nothing that is not sent to me. As for your difficulties with Siebeck, I should first try reasoning with him, as a theological publisher has obvious advantages for you. But you can add that you have no intention of putting pressure on him, as you are not incommoded by the lack of an alternative publisher. Deuticke, when I sounded him on the matter, said that he would be more than willing to take your book, though he too thinks you should try a theological publisher first. So you have nothing to worry about.
You take a kinder view of events in Vienna than they deserve. It is really uncomfortable and disagreeable. Certainly the father complex has come into play, but from the standpoint that father is not doing enough for them. Criticism of the impotent father. In fact my capacity to distribute patients has declined considerably in this year of continual agitation. With Stekel there will probably be a reconcilation; he is incorrigible, but fundamentally decent, and he has done great services to psycho-analysis. But the other one will go overboard.
Physically I am very well, and in that state unfortunately I am always rather lazy. On July 8 I am to go to Karlsbad, for which my wife left with the little (i.e., middle) girl yesterday. In the autumn I shall be visiting you all in Zürich, but cannot yet say whether it will be before or at the time of the congress. This year you must attend it; that will not prevent our spending a few agreeable hours together in your city apart from that.
Your young son is well, I hope?
With cordial greetings from Yours,
Freud