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Vienna, June 1, 1922
Dear Doctor,
Apologies for answering on a postcard instead of with a treatise. I cannot keep you waiting any longer. I am snowed under with work. Your letter makes me think. In anaemic abstraction it is difficult to recognise anything, easier in the hallucinations of Kielholz, Jakob Böhme73. The avoidance of the symbol has
not been treated generally, it is very obvious indeed with our ‘educated’ people. Symbols are about the most unpopular aspect of learning and science.
Sincerely yours Freud
Arthur Kielholz, Jakob Böhme (1575-1624), Ein pathographischer Beitrag zur Psychologie der Mystik. Schriften zur Angewandten Seelen-kunde, 1919. (A pathographic contribution to the psychology of mysticism. Essays on applied psychology.)