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Göttingen, 20.vii.1920
Dear Professor,
Since I sent you my last letter from Munich a month ago, I have been completely preoccupied for weeks with psycho-analytic periodicals; for I had not had any printed matter forwarded, and now to be able to bury myself in them since my return without distraction is a real genuine holiday pleasure for me.
I have thought a great deal about your homosexual case130 in the last number of the Journal (VI, i). What a pity that it had to be broken off! Behind the negative transference to you there lay hidden no doubt the original positive transference to the father. Would not this original basis have come to light eventually through the acting out of the negative transference? For despite everything I can only imagine this young girl to have been neurotic, since she succeeded