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Vienna, November 21, 1909
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
I am a bad correspondent, now that I have to use every free hour, and I don't have many, for writing down the damned American lectures (three have already been sent off). But that should have no repercussions on you, rather the opposite; the less I can give, the more need I have to receive.
After lengthy consideration I have offered your work on dreams to Stanley Hall to be translated and published.1 I believe that is the best way to make use of it. I made much of it to him, but I have kept the manuscript, because sending it in would have seemed too much like pressuring him. Figuring on the deadlines which are familiar to us, we will now await his decision.
He wrote in his last letter what I am now copying out for you: “I am a very unworthy exponent of your views and of course have too little clinical experience to be an authority in that field. But it seems to me, whereas hitherto many if not most psychopathologists have leaned upon the stock psychologists like Wundt, your own interpretations reversd (sic) the situation and make us normal psychologists look to this work in the abnormal or borderline field for our chief light.”2
Now, back to Europe and to your interesting communications.3 I will send them back to you, and my only regret is that in so doing I will gradually lose your entire correspondence; still, this is the best way of exchanging ideas about scientific matters. You don't need to copy out future notices, but send me the originals, which I will then send back after I've looked at them.
(Your notebook has been ordered; I know from experience that these people take their time.)
Ad 1: The analgesic hand as mouse. Excellent. Agrees, by the way, with the conception that I have always maintained of hysterical anesthesia as a sign of possession of the ucs., and it also agrees with the idea, represented by the French, that hysterical paralyses originate by means of a reservation to the ucs. (I. Sammlung).4 My p