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Vienna, November 28, 1920
Dear Doctor,
Thank you very much for the sacrifice at the end of your article for the Zeitschrift.
I understand well that you want to make up for it (the economic approach!) and am looking forward very much to the book you announced. Yet I do not at all share your threatened fears, rather I believe that we shall ask you to give us this heretical work too, if things continue to be all right for our publishing house. I am myself a heretic who has not yet become a fanatic. I cannot stand fanatics, people who are capable of taking their narrowmindedness seriously. By holding on to one's superiority and by knowing what one is doing one can do a lot of things which are against the tide. The courage you intend to show I like very much, too. Perhaps the latest little work of mine that has just appeared, Beyond the Pleasure Principle42, will change my image in your eyes a little.
I, too, do not intend to give you up easily.
Warm regards
Yours Freud