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Berggasse 19,
Vienna IX,
21.12.1924
Dear Dr Pfister,
What a truly delightful Christmas greeting. I have of course not yet read your new book1, but only sampled it when I unpacked the parcel. But I am already sure that it is a good, bold, intelligent piece of work. Your productivity is beginning to put mine to shame, and I have not been in the least lazy in my time. May all the good spirits in which you still seem to believe give you the strength and will to maintain it for several more decades.
I am very satisfied with the choice of Lucerne for the next congress, but it is very doubtful whether I shall be able to travel to Switzerland to attend it in September. Travelling is nowadays a very serious undertaking for me. Abraham,2 optimist as he is, will have told you the facts of the matter.
Do not worry about your young American. The man can be helped. Dr Reik3 here in Vienna has specialised in these severe obsessional neuroses; he treated a Russian count whom I sent him, for instance, with extreme patience and deep understanding, and not without success, for several years.
You will be getting an Autobiographical Study shortly; I am expecting it soon.
With hearty Christmas greetings and good wishes for the jubilee year 1925,
Cordially yours,
Freud
Zulliger's excellent little book arrived to-day.4