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Budapest, December 7, 1909
VII., Erzsébet-körút 54
Dear Professor,
Thank you very much for the introduction to the Hungarian collection. I am very satisfied with it. Assuming your concurrence after the fact, however, I have added a word; at the place where you note that I am the first Hungarian who etc. … wants to initiate “the men of education in his own country,” I want to have printed “the doctors and the men of education in his own country.”1 don't want this book to be described as “popular science.” Probably no one will notice that in so doing the doctors will be removed from the circle of the educated (even though this ironic conception would not be inappropriate).
Now to Dr. Pollak! he is no longer in treatment with me. The thing went brilliantly. He was quick to learn, confessional, transferred excellently, already began to bring up infantile material. But his wife annoyed him to the quick; she confronted him with the choice: “me or analysis”; talked him into believing I had some kind of base intentions of alienating him from her; declared to him (on the basis of information from Vienna) that the analysis was I.) dangerous, 2.) immoral, 3.) a swindle. He still didn't let up. Then she made a terrible scene at night: “I will save you, cure you. Come, love me.” The poor guy tried it—and couldn't. The wife—very ashamed—implored him not to tell me about it. But he came and told.
Then the wife called in Dr. Lévy,2 and he,—in an excess of timidity—let the analysis drop. [N.B.: Lévy is in the same situation as Pollak. He married a very rich, ugly girl. He is excessively concerned about his wife.3 I told him so, and he was—apparently—aware of it.]4 The Pollaks are now in Vienna.—