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13.3.22
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
Dearest Lou
I too very much miss Daughter-Anna. She set off for Berlin and Hamburg on March the second. I have long felt sorry for her for still being at home with us old folks […], but on the other hand, if she really were to go away, I should feel myself as deprived as I do now, and as I should do if I had to give up smoking! As long as we are all together, one doesn't realize it clearly, or at least we do not. And therefore in view of all these insoluble conflicts it is good that life comes to an end sometime or other.
The mixture of cold, influenza and general misery might well bring the wish for this end still nearer. It will soon be spring now, and I intend to finish working on 1 July. For I can no longer hope to grow rich or poor, nor wiser than I am already; but I do not forget that I am old.
In the interval your hair will certainly have grown considerably again. Your remarks about the beating phantasy show that you are quite your old self once more. Always when I have dissected things somewhat crudely, you have been able to indicate the common origin of the various elements, and so synthesize them anew. In my theory of sexuality I once put forward a point of view, which to my regret was not pursued further, namely, that everything which