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Budapest, May 5, 1909
Hotel Royal
Dear Professor,
In response to your kind letter, for which I am most grateful, I must first expand upon my last report about the supposed paranoiac. Strangely, his father (like the mother of your patient) was also mentally ill. He died of paralysis. Naturally, this circumstance (especially since the patient also underwent syphilis and is informed about the significance of syphilis for paralysis) very effectively supports his original sperm hypochondria.—I definitely want to observe the case for a while and report my impressions to you.
There is now a noticeable increase in my practice; and although the slump which I have endured for some months was not enough to depress me seriously, I do feel a certain satisfaction now that I see that better times seem to be breaking out.
The analysis of a homosexual, very intelligent young man brings me great satisfaction. He brought me interesting parapraxes; I am sending one of them to you enclosed.1
The thing with the “déjà vu” was striking with him!2 A few times he