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Berggasse 19,
Vienna IX,
22.2.1925
Dear Dr Pfister,
Your praise for my charitableness and wisdom may perhaps be not entirely justified. If I did not know what a strange man the colleague about whom you write is in other respects also, I should take very much amiss his conduct in the matter of the congress. But I tell myself, as you do, that the man is not to be changed, and must therefore be swallowed as he is.
The prospect of having you with us here in Vienna at Easter is, so to speak, a consolation. Bring your American with you. Since you make such a strong plea for him, I am not disinclined to accept him for treatment in November. It is not correct that as a matter of principle I take doctors only. I have two patients among my five analysands at present,1 and shall be glad to have a third for next season. My uniform fee is $20 an hour. As nature seems to be intending to grant me one or perhaps several more years of honour, I no longer need to fend off patients so anxiously. The main thing will of course be the impression the young man makes on me when we meet. Until October you will have to keep him yourself, because I see absolutely no possibility of taking him sooner.
Easter is not far off, and until then I send you my heartiest greetings.
Yours,
Freud