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Baden Baden, Werderstr. 14, 11.3.1923
Dear Professor,
One of my patients has been at work for a number of years on an analysis of Aristotle in the original language. The provisional result of this difficult digging is the enclosed paper78 which he begs me to send to you for inspection. Perhaps you will find an hour for it. The writing got more and more obscure, however, the more he worked on it. I have the impression that the core is still intelligible; in other words this is proof for the Aristotelian philosophy that it is rooted in the impotence complex. I personally believe that it is the root of every conceptual philosophy, in decided contrast to the mythologically based Weltanschauung philosophy. A narcissism based on a sense of guilt with a castration complex behind the desire to masturbate which is defending itself with words.
I shall start work again in a few days' time. Apart from a little