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Berggasse 19,
Vienna IX,
15.6.1911
Dear Dr Pfister,
For Munich read Weimar,1 where I hope to see you in the shadow of our greatness. Many thanks for the papers you have sent me. The controversial matter is extremely interesting. In the last there is a large dose of sweet-tasting theological poison, which is more appetising, but what does he mean by ‘east European students just sprung from a south Russian ghetto’? The cloven hoof.
The Zentralblatt has now got rid of one editor (Adler) and, as I am again on very good terms with Stekel, will now be much more subject to my influence. We did not have any exaggerated idea of the value of the contributions to which you object—no doubt Epstein's and Luzenberger's2—but politics spoil everything, characters and Zentralblätter alike. If we had declined these first contributions, we should have made the authors unhappy and turned them into enemies….
I am counting the days until July 9, and in the meantime getting more dull-witted every day. When I complain about this, the answer I get is: No wonder. There are few wonders.
Ernst, who was your favourite and might easily have been ours, is now taking his school-leaving examination while suffering from an intestinal ulcer and feeling unwell. He wants to be an architect. I do not know whether I should agree.
With cordial greetings,
Your devoted,
Freud