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Budapest, June 10, 1909
VII., Erzsébet-körút 54
Dear Professor,
The enclosed excerpt from the “New York Medical Journal”1 should interest you. It was gratifying at first to see that the spirits are so prepared to receive you. On the other hand, in America, the land of business, the apparent increasingly widespread tendency to rediscover and to “modify” your things is becoming evident. Since I also learned something similar about Jones from a reliable source, I was happy that it was he who seems to have mentioned your name at least once.
Aside from the sense of justice, such phenomena (along with these ethical ones) also seem to have a certain real significance for the future; they show whose hands your ideas are getting into. I am convinced that no progress is possible in psychoanalysis without honesty. But I find this attribute (among the Americans) only in Brill, who unfortunately didn't get to speak in New Haven.—
My little work about the interpretation of dreams has—I believe—come out so well that it deserves to be translated into German2 I will bring it along on the ship.
The lecture that I gave to the Physicians' Association has already been printed,3 it was read with interest by many.
I sent the manuscript of the “introjection” and hypnosis paper4 to Zurich,5 after minor revision and inclusion of your theory of masochistic suggestion.6 I left the two parts separate as two chapters of the work. The mood in which both were written is so different that a total amalgamation seemed unnatural to me.
America is occupying me, unfortunately, only theoretically. I could find time neither to learn English nor to read about America.—I hope everything