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Berlin-Grunewald
7. xi. 30
Dear Mr. Freud,
From your letter I gathered first and foremost and with a certain shock that you were ill in bed. But I hope the illness is now over and that the wonderful November we have been granted here has permitted you to drive up to the Kobenzl and enjoy some sunshine, so that the winter will pass without further trouble.
The trouble with Laubheu und keine Bleibe is just as you outlined it. The play is neither completely comic nor completely tragic, and its styles really are intermingled. I hoped that this would be overcome on the stage by the skill of the actor, on which we are after all forced to rely to a certain extent. What I like about the play is that it gives visual and symbolic expression to psychical forces such as transference