Bad Gastein, 25.7.1922

Dear Dr Pfister,

At last a letter with which I am in heartfelt agreement-with the exception of one point. This concerns your sudden inclination to (ordinary and medically induced) self-damage. Is this punishment for your conversion from anagogics to catagogics?

Of course there must be education, and it can even be strict; it does it no harm if it is based on analytic knowledge, but analysis itself is after all something quite different and is in the first place an honest establishment of the facts, in that We are in agreement. A squeamish concern that no harm must be done to the higher things in man is unworthy of an analyst.

I am glad you are satisfied with your colleague; we are finding that not easy. We cannot get anything out of him. When at last he promises a contribution to the journal, it never turns up, and when he undertakes to write a tribute to