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Baden Baden, May 10, 1923
Dear Professor,
I have written the enclosed article81 for my own instruction. If you were to consider publishing it I beg you to let it appear in the Zeitschrift, or otherwise return it to me. Personally I am of the opinion that some kind of admonition to use thought is necessary. The sentence that people respect what they are told by people who do not really believe what they say expresses my conviction. Your life's work will never be doubted, yet its development is hampered, no longer by external, but by internal forces. Yet it may be presumptuous of me to believe that these forces could be removed by me. The emphasis of the essay lies not on its real content but on the way it is written.
Unfortunately I have not yet received the Id and the Ego. I am looking forward to it. The Book of the It is beginning to have its effect in the circles of my patients.
Affectionately
Your disciple Groddeck
‘Nachlust und Nachbewusst’ (After-pleasure and after-conscious).