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Berggasse 19, Vienna IX, 23.3.1921
Dear Dr Pfister,
I should of course be glad to accept a woman doctor for self-analysis,1 provided that she is prepared to pay the now usual forty francs an hour and remains long enough for there to be a prospect of getting somewhere, i.e., from four to six months; a shorter period is not worth while. I could certainly take her on October I; whether I could take her earlier it is
impossible to say. I am waiting to hear whether two patients due to begin on April I are really coming.
You do not mention in your letter how much time the young woman is willing to devote to analysis. How her recent marriage will accord with an analysis lasting for many months I cannot say, so further information is desirable.
I was delighted with your remarks about Groddeck. We really must be able to tell each other home-truths, i.e., incivilities, and remain firm friends, as in this case. I am not giving up my view of Groddeck either, I am usually not so easily taken in by anybody. But it does not matter.
What you say about the pleasure principle is interesting and valuable. You will soon have occasion to express your opinion on a new piece, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. On the other hand, what you say about dreaming seems to me to be only classificatory in nature. Let us not forget the broadest and best definition of dreaming, which is that it is the mental activity that takes place during sleep.
With cordial greetings to you and, please, also to the Oberholzers.
Yours,
Freud