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Munich, Elisabethstrasse 8 [beginning of May 1920]
Dear Professor,
It is a long time since I have written, for I did not want to bother you to reply without serious reason. But now I have just heard something which so excites me that I cannot hold back with my joyful query: are you really coming this summer to Tölz, and so here too? Probably I shall by then be over the hills and far away, but it is just possible that I could arrange things so that we could meet. Would you be so kind as to let me have a word on this?
I had intended to pay a visit to the Psycho-Analytic Society here, only I have now begun to doubt whether it has anything essentially in common with Freudian psycho-analysis. One hears strange things of Seif,126 who sets the tone there, and now trains up ‘Seifians’ rather than ‘Jungians’; but of course this may be calumny on the part of the Jungians.
I was just about to tell your son Ernst that I would be very delighted to get a letter from you, when I heard that he was staying in Berlin and had got engaged to be married. I hope that in addition to this happy event other causes for satisfaction have occurred in your private life, despite the inexpressibly horrible state of the world situation.
Warmest greetings to you and your family
from your
Lou Andreas
Am at present engaged on a piece of work which you might possibly be able to make use of for Imago or somewhere else.
Leonhard Seif, doctor in Munich, attended, like Lou A.-S., the Weimar and Munich Congresses and subsequently founded a Freudian group in Munich. Later he joined Jung, and the Freudian tradition was continued by Hans von Hattingberg.