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Baden Baden, 3.10.1917
Sanatorium Groddeck
Dear Professor,
My answer to your kind letter was delayed because I wanted to send you at the same time a pamphlet12 which only reached me today. Essentially this is a repetition of what I have already told you in my letters. Yet it may interest you a little to see these fruits of your suggestions.
I thank you for the invitation to contribute to your journals
occasionally. I shall certainly make use of this. Today merely some remarks to while away the time. First on the subject of male pregnancy. Recently I treated a gentleman who suffered from gout. One morning he complained of a new attack. It had started right at the beginning of a walk. He could not remember whether he went straight to the street or through the park first. Associations: Park—Parkin, the name of a hair growth product which his brother used; as a student he himself used a brown hair growth oil, his landlady was angry because the bedding had brown stains. Question, whether he ever dirtied his bed. He laughs and tells me: after his wife had given birth a second time, which lasted a whole night, he had dreamed the following night that he had to push something out of his body, he had pushed and pushed and when he woke up the child was lying between his legs, in the form of a stool. The gout attack passed quickly when the association bald head-empty purse (kahler Kopf-kahler Beutel) had been found and analysed.
In the latest issue of Imago13 there is a paper by Levy14 on the story of paradise. The interpretation of apple as breast is probably right; as important, perhaps more important, is the apple as symbol of the behind (Italian mele). In German apple is quite commonly used with this meaning. Even more striking is the peach (peach cheeks) particularly for the eye. The snake is closely related to the tree (Baumstamm = tree trunk, Stammbaum = pedigree). The iconographical representations of the Fall of Man offer a rich field. Herr Levy misses the most interesting