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Vienna, February 12, 1909
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear colleague,
I told Stein that a certain indecision, a vacillation on your part, has alienated you from him in the matter of ΨA. This information was intended to counter his conviction that you disapprove of him because of his homosexuality. Nothing else.
Nothing pleasant can come out of the entire matter. But we want to prevent anything worse.
Cordially,
Your Freud
P.S. Muthmann1 was our guest on Wednesday.
Arthur Muthmann (1875-1957), German psychiatrist, author of Zur Psychologie und Therapie neurotischer Symptome, Eine Studie auf Grand der Neurosenlehre Freuds [On the Psychology and Therapy of Neurotic Symptoms: A Study Based on Freud's Theory of Neurosis] (Halle, 1907), and one of Freud's first adherents in Germany, had been a guest of the Wednesday Society on February 10, 1909 (Minutes II, 145-152).