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Zürich,
21.10.1927
… As for your anti-religious pamphlet, there is nothing new to me in your rejection of religion. I look forward to it with pleasurable anticipation. A powerful-minded opponent of religion is certainly of more service to it than a thousand useless supporters. In music, philosophy, and religion I go different ways from you. I have been unable to imagine that a public profession of what you believe could be painful to me; I have always believed that every man should state his honest opinion aloud and plainly. You have always been tolerant towards me, and am I to be intolerant of your atheism? If I frankly air my differences from you, you will certainly not take it amiss. Meanwhile my attitude is one of eager curiosity.
Permit me to mention an entirely different matter. It concerns what you describe as the unsolved problem of therapy. It appears that F. gained no lasting help from analysis in Vienna. He describes the therapeutic success of the analysis as minimal, and regards it all as theory. And here is a quite different experience. Harald Schjelderup, a brilliant thirty-two-year-old professor of philosophy and psychology, who wrote the first analytically oriented psychological text-book—it is due soon to appear in German—was under analysis with Dr H. for seven months, during which his agonising weekly migraines grew worse and worse, until he had to return to Oslo.