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Budapest, October 26, 1909
VII, Erzsebet-konit 54
Dear Professor,
Gratefully confirm the receipt of your letter of the 22nd. I was very pleased to hear about the linguistic discovery. After the fact, one naturally thinks that opposites must also flow into one another in speech (as in other psychical structures with great impact from the ucs.). Confirmation of this, however, and from the pre-Ψ-α time to boot, is a very valuable supplement to your teachings. Whether this will also impress the uninitiated is extremely doubtful.
I read the report about the Budapest Congress1 in the Neurologisches Zentralblatt —so did you, probably. Ranschburg2 said the stupidest things. He says he does psychoanalyses—but only to the point where he comes to sexuality. Some analyses! And what kind of scientific logic is that, to intentionally (consciously!) leave something factual undiscovered? He criticizes your theory of forgetting, even though I learned more in your first essay about it than from a long-winded book about memory (by Max Offner, Munich),3 which I unfortunately had to read through; it is written