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7.7.14
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
Dear Frau Andreas
I am so busy that it is best for me to answer you without delay.
Sincere thanks for your letter. I was very pleased to learn that a year ago already you recognized as such the attempts to displace the problem from its centre. The only thing that remains is to discuss the motives which prompted this.
That you should have permitted me to see your correspondence with Adler I take as a sign of great trust on your part. The letter shows his specific venomousness, and it is very characteristic of him. I don't believe that it belies the picture which I have given of him. Let us speak frankly (it will be easier then to continue): he is a loathsome individual.
I have never objected to differences of opinion among members of the psycho-analytic circle, especially as I myself usually have several views on a matter, until, that is to say, I have expressed one of them in print. But one must stick to the fundamental core; otherwise it becomes something else.
How the congress will turn out cannot yet be determined. Possibly it will be very amicable—if, that is to say, the Swiss have left the ranks by then. Otherwise I should not like to wager on our meeting on this occasion.
The mysterious guest whom you announce will be welcome to all. And if you have recited ‘Anal and Sexual’ to yourself, the brothers30 will also want to hear it.
With warm greetings,
Yours,
Freud
A frequently repeated reference of Freud's to the fact that for Lou A.-S. (as she expressed it later in her Lebensrückblick) the feeling of ‘solidarity’ with her brothers, which she had experienced in childhood, ‘extended to all men the world over … it always seemed to me that a brother was hidden in each one of them’.