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Budapest, March 28, 1908
9 P.M.
Dear Professor,
I have just come out of the Society of Physicians, where I gave the lecture which I announced to you. It was a “success,” as they say;—the medical public listened to your teachings with great attentiveness and much applause.—Naturally, there were two neurologists who spoke against it, Dr. Donat1 and Dr. Sarbó.2 Both raised the most hackneyed objections. When I have the official transcript in my hands, I will communicate the discussion to you in extenso. It was easy for me to refute them. The discussion was rather heated, at times personal. But I believe most were on my side and had a sense of the scope of the questions that interest us.
I offered to psychoanalyze Messrs. D[onath] and S[arbó] a little—they never concern themselves with the cause (and I reproached them for that)— then, I said, they will certainly be on our side.
Donat is, by the way, a conditional adherent to the doctrine. He considers it valid for certain cases. Sarbó was at times outrageous; I didn't owe him the dignity of a reply. (No complex left behind.)