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[Vienna] January 20, 19091
Up, Brodmann! That is the best solution. A part of that power, etc.2 Console yourself, he did the same thing to me with the Dora analysis.3 Now, write Jung immediately, explain to him my bizarre reservations, and set it up there.
Cordially,
Freud
Postcard.
“Faust: ‘Nun gut, wer bist du denn?’ Mephisto: ‘Ein Teil von jener Kraft, die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft’” (Faust: “Who are you ?” Mephistopheles: A part of that power that always wants evil and always creates good”), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, pt. i, vv. 1335f, quoted in Sophienausgabe XIV, 67.
In 1901 Freud had sent the Dora analysis (“Fragment of a Case of Hysteria,” 1905e [1901]) to Brodmann, although Theodore Ziehen, the editor of the Monatsschrift für Psychiatrie und Neurologie, had already agreed to publish it. Brodmann had evidently sent the manuscript back under the pretext that it violated the physician's obligation to confidentiality (see the editor's preliminary remarks in Studienausgabe VI, 84f; Jones I, 362, and II, 255f).