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Vienna, October 7, 1908
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear colleague,
I am happy to be able to correspond with you uninterruptedly once again. My visit to Zurich was very satisfying.1 Jung is making a complete break with Bleuler,2 is going unreservedly with us, and arranged some very pleasant days for me.
On Friday, the 9th of this month, Bleuler and his wife, who are here for the Congress for the Treatment of the Insane,3 will be our guests for the evening.4 Would it be possible for you to be with us (8 P.M.) (or somewhat later)? They will all be pleased, as you know.
This afternoon is the first “Almtanz.”5
Best regards,
Your Freud
In a hurry.
After his trip to England, Freud traveled by way of Berlin, where he visited relatives, to Zurich, and was Jung's guest in his house at the Burghölzli September 18-21. Subsequently he spent a few days with his sister-in-law Minna Bernays at Lake Garda (see letter 50, n. 3).
Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939), prominent Swiss psychiatrist, professor in Zurich; was the director of the Burghölzli and thus Jung's superior. He coined the terms schizophrenia, autism, and ambivalence. He was a champion of the antialcohol movement. This role, and above all his misgivings about taking part in the psychoanalytic movement, led to tensions with Freud (see Freud-Bleuler correspondence, Library of Congress; and , “Freud-Bleuler Correspondence,” Archives of General Psychology 12 [1965]: 1-9; and Jones II, 72f. Jung had a strained relationship with Bleuler and was about to give up his position in the clinic to open a private practice.