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Vienna, January 18, 1909
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear colleague,
Be prepared to laugh at me. Today I looked at the first fourteen pages of our Jahrbuch and was delighted. Jung has done a magnificent job in bringing it out;1 true revenge for Amsterdam.2 It is something to be proud of.
And now something has made my heart heavy: that you are not represented in a volume that we will not soon see the likes of again in such a splendid and honorable form. Then I told myself it was my fault, because, out of misguided discretion, or God knows why, I prevented your beautiful paper about transference from being published in the second half-volume. I told myself you could easily write another paper for the second half-volume, but then it occurred to me that you would hardly be able to produce anything as significant in one year. In short, it is necessary for me to ask you to regard my earlier objection as rescinded and to reconsider whether you wouldn't rather withdraw the paper from Brodmann's journal and designate it for the Jahrbuch. That would appear to me now to be far more correct. You can lay the blame for inconsistency on me before Jung; you needn't be concerned about Brodmann. Give him any old reason. So, have a good laugh at me and take the advice I am giving you now.
Cordially,
Freud