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Murberg, near Sasbachwalden, 1.2.1922
Dear Professor,
Like last year I am using the holidays again to read Freud. Or rather, in the first weeks I read Westerns and Marlitt's romantic novels66, was bad-tempered, and slept a lot. Now, after a few long walks in the snow of the mountains, I am fit again and have convinced myself that I make books from individual sentences of your work like other people, too. I do not know if this is the right way to get myself to continue the fool book, but it is useful, in any case, as a corrective to my arrogance in other respects.
I take your silence regarding the letters to a lady-friend as a sign that you have quite a few objections to make or even that you disapprove in some important respects. Although I would be very sorry I would not consider it irreparable. The letter form allows all kinds of changes. This is the main reason why I chose this odd form of writing. I am expecting your criticism and shall make use of it in a later edition, which I consider possible, as I did with one of your objections. Personally I do not mind if my writings contain mistakes. I would only mind if you were angry about it. I shall then try and make amends.
I am struck by the fact that I have taken up the Dora fragment67 again, and when on one of my recent walks I fell head first over some bits of rock I found a kind of explanation for this in the night. In the fragments from the analysis I talk about in the letters to a lady-friend the name Raabe68 occurs. A