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Vienna, January 10, 1909
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear colleague,
Jung writes me today that he has contacted Brodmann about your paper. It deserves their efforts on its behalf. You can imagine why I did not favor presenting your ideas in the Wednesday Society.1 The question of priority would have been confused thereby. I hope that you also know that I am making difficulties with the Jahrbuch only in your interest, and that only for the time being as well. I don't have the feeling of being the “benefactor” toward you and others and thus do [not] tie to my actions the otherwise justified fears of which you speak. I find that in consideration of my age I must keep space available for those who come after me, that is, that I do everything only for the cause, which, again, is basically my own; i.e., that I proceed thoroughly egoistically. There will certainly be a prominent place for you among my successors and proponents.
I was also sorry about declining to go to America, and if the trip does come about contrary to all expectation, I would also be in a position to ask you to accompany me. But I do find the presumption to sacrifice so much money in order to give lectures there much too “American.” America should bring money, not cost money. By the way, we could soon be “up shit creek” the minute they come upon the sexual underpinnings of our psychology. Brill writes, alternating between hopefulness and misgiving, that he thinks he will soon find this very hard.
A work by Strohmayer2 in Jena about anxiety is the most gratifying event