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Budapest, January 2, 1909
VII., Erzsébet-körút 54
Dear Professor,
First, heartfelt thanks for the many manifestations of your kindness with which you have again allowed me to be blessed. If I didn't know that gratitude always means also being guilty and that it more often than not separates people rather than brings them together, I would uninhibitedly give myself over to these feelings. Therefore I accept what you have offered me simply as a gift of my favorable fate and think of your words in Berchtesgaden: “Man should also be able to accept gifts.”
I am sorry that you have so much to do with my work. Certainly I would like, if possible, to avoid having your work compared directly with mine. I know all too well that this little paper can justify its existence only when considered in and for itself, but it loses its justification after the publication of your work. I will therefore attempt the following: I will write to Jung about the matter and ask him if he couldn't manage to have the Journal für Psychologie und Neurologie1 bring out the article before the second