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Vienna, March 4, 1934
Dear Doctor,
To read one or two articles by you remains a pleasure even if one cannot bring oneself to take your side, as happened to me this time. As for the Melancholia print116 I cannot think myself into the intensity of that particular age's thought. Cancer is unfortunately much nearer to my mind, but what you say about it117 seems too indistinct to me and probably to you, too. However, I shall certainly present the two essays to the editors of Imago.
You are important to us if only as somebody who takes a continuing interest.
Most sincerely yours Freud
Dürer's ‘Melancholia’. See Psychoanalytische Schriften zur Literatur und kunst.
‘Von der psychischen Bedingtheit der Krebserkrankung’ (The psychical conditioning of cancer), fragment 1934. Included in Psychoanalytische Schriften zur Psychosomatik.