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Vienna, October 22, 1909
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
I am writing you hurriedly because I couldn't do otherwise. It is an entirely American exploitation,- I hardly have time to live, never mind work. And then, to top it all, Stanley Hall, in a really kind letter, has reminded me of my promise about the five lectures.1 Now, only half a page of them is really finished.
My walk-in practice is still very far behind my regular, so that I still have
hardly anything to share. The patients are disgusting and are giving me an opportunity for new studies on technique. Eitingon2 is here and goes for a walk with me twice a week after dinner, and has himself analyzed at the same time. He is proving to be very intelligent there and in the Wednesday discussions, and he has his feet on the ground. My daughter is doing much better without an operation, but not yet a hundred percent.
I am sending you back your first Seidler letter today. I think you have prepared too many tests at once for the poor thing, so that the later ones might not yield anything clearer. My opinion that she reads with her eyes, like you and me, is based not on theoretical considerations but on what is apparent in the facts. This point will be the easiest to determine experimentally.
I congratulate you on your dream lecture. Just write it down in German; we will endeavor to find a home for it. Do you consider it unsuitable for an English, i.e., American, journal3 There it could have a completely new effect. It would be easy to get it translated. Your patient, as you will find out, did not come to see me.
I learned from Jung that Friedländer4 was with him “sweet as sugar and wagging his tail”! He's a rotten character! I am very eager for further news.
I was more pleased by a little discovery the last few days than twelve articles by Aschaffenburg5 could have made me. In 1884, a. philologist named Abel6 published a piece, The Antithetical Sense of Primal Words, which claims no more and no less than that in many langu