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Vienna, February 2, 1909
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear colleague,
I hope that your work is now in the safe haven of the Jahrbuch. Three days ago my behavior in this matter suddenly became understandable as completely rational, and the misleading trimmings of feeling fell away. I saw, apparently right away, that I cannot finish my paper on technique during the months of practice but must postpone it until July-August. Therefore, it can only get into the second volume of the Jahrbuch, which then makes room for your paper in the first. Perhaps I possessed this insight for a long time already and only learned its consequence earlier than its premise.
Colleague Stein was with me on Sunday and gave me very interesting insights into his vita sexualis. He is not an uninhibited homosexual, and his present suffering is a true anxiety hysteria. I decided to ask you to take him into analysis, on the one hand, to help him, but on the other, to take advantage of such a rare opportunity to get a lasting impression of the genesis of homosexuality. Certain of my reservations about this suggestion were dispelled by the realization that you are a constitutionally kind person and that you also usually act unselfishly (which you shouldn't do). I talked