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Vienna, October 6, 1909
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
I can't answer you today nor send back your letter. I want to sleep on it first for a few nights and ruminate over it for a few days. Now, I see only this much: one can go ahead and assume that the person reads with her eyes what has been presented to her—just as you read this letter—by means of some trick. All her declarations and the guarantees proffered by her speak in favor of that. But, apart from that, there seems to be something to the thing. The rest appears to be genuine! Not that the woman [Frauenzimmer] possesses particularly great talents. You really don't need to regret that you didn't ask about the future. That always forms itself anew,- even the dear Lord doesn't know it in advance. But the transference of your thoughts in incomprehensible ways is the strange thing and possibly something new. Keep quiet about it for the time being; we will have to engage in further experiments.
By the end of this week I will have gotten myself together and will be able to express myself.
I have been visited by much work and some hardship here.
Cordially,
Freud