You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
Vienna, 22.4.20
Dear Doctor,
Every contribution of yours is welcome. You have to get used to the fact that the editors of the Psychoanalytische Zeitschrift here value your importance. If we had money and paper our publishing house would put an end to your novel's perambulations.
I have one reservation about the most recent analysis you sent us33 which I would like you to help me destroy. I believe I can recognise the half-ironical patient of your analysis; there cannot easily be two such people. He is also too well-versed in your way of printing and expression as well as with your article on hell. Now so far we have tried not to allow people to doubt the documentary character of an analysis. It would open the door to many abuses. Moreover, the semi-fantastic character of your analysis (the justification of which I personally recognise) might embarrass us vis-à-vis the public. Tell me what you think of this and whether you could preserve the core of this ‘analytic delirium’ in a thoroughly serious critical form for publication?
With warmest regards
Yours Freud