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2.4.19
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
Dear Frau Andreas
The letters of your reticent patient I will return when the post improves. The excuses used are entirely typical in character. The long-distance treatment had little chance of success.
I must make a vigorous protest against your riposte. What has happened to my Metapsychology? In the first place it has not yet been written. The systematic working through of material is not possible for me; the fragmentary nature of my experiences and the sporadic character of my insights do not permit it. But if I still have ten years to live and remain capable of work in this period, do not die of starvation, or meet a violent end, nor am too severely afflicted by the misery of my family or of the world around me—a bit too much to ask—then I promise to make further contributions to it. A first example of this will be found in an essay of mine entitled Beyond the Pleasure Principle, concerning which I look forward to a detailed critical-synthetic appreciation from you.
I hope you will enjoy yourself in Munich, and please give my greetings to your host, if he still remembers me.
Warmest greetings,
Freud
P.S. The Munich address of my son Ernst is now Gabelsbergerstrasse 3. Many thanks for the addresses.
[Lou Andreas-Salomé to Sigmund Freud from Munich, presumably soon after 23 April 1919.]