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Vienna, March 25, 1908
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear colleague,
Severe disturbances at home have prevented me from answering your interesting letter earlier. Now some calm has returned and I have just
received the notice of your lecture, for which I wish you the best of luck, which you need for this difficult undertaking.
Don't concern yourself about the lack of success in the case of Frau Marton's paranoia. Success is not possible there, but we need these analyses in order finally to reach an understanding of all neuroses. I believe that the case is typical, and you have comprehended it flawlessly. I have often seen it so: a woman unsatisfied by a man naturally turns to a woman and tries to invest her long-suppressed gynecophilic component with libido. But a resistance arises against it; she can no longer become homosexual, and for that reason she detaches her libido from the woman. In paranoia it often happens that the sublimations are destroyed by this projection and the homosexual component in particular comes to the fore.
—Today the program for Salzburg1 arrived; I am very much looking forward to seeing you and Dr. Stein again there. Give him my warmest regards. We became very good friends in one day.
Yours truly,
Freud
The first international meeting of psychoanalysts, called the First Congress for Freudian Psychology by Jung in his printed invitation (Freud/Jung, ca. January 18-20, 1908, pp. 110f). It was held in Salzburg on April 27, 1908. According to Jung, the inspiration for the conference came from Ernest Jones (see letter 9, n. 3) and from the “Budapesters,” Ferenczi and Stein (Freud/Jung, November 30, 1907, p. 101).