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Vienna, February 8, 1910
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
Today I can finally forward to you the long-awaited news from Worcester that your article on dreams1 arrived a long time ago, has been translated by Mr. Chase,2 the translator of my lectures, and is in press. Stanley Hall adds that he has asked Brill, whom he saw in New York, to write him a paper “which should do for your work on the actions of daily life what Ferenczi attempts to do for the Traumdeutung.”3 The old man is certainly very commendable.
Our talk has also invigorated me greatly.4 Every day after work I write on Leonardo and am already on page 10. My writer's cramp is in full convalescence. As a consequence of your impressive exhortation to allow myself some rest, I have—taken on a new patient from Odessa, a very rich Russian with compulsive feelings,5 but I am more capable of accomplishment than ever. My friend Rie,6 whom I have put in charge of my cecum,7 explains my malady as a catarrh and considers it highly unlikely that it is life-threatening; he does ask, however, that I go to Karlsbad. The plan now is to undertake the journey for the cure on July 14 with my wife and daughter Sophie and to meet the others three weeks later in an as yet unknown summer residence. The plans for September will not be affected thereby.
You should not be surprised if in my Nuremberg lecture8 you again hear your thoughts and even some of your formulations. It will be the way it was with the last lecture in Worcester; I have a decidedly obliging intellect and am very much inclined toward plagiarism. I myself, meanwhile, have surely already made the analogy with the Platonic rule of philosophers. I ask you in your own interests to please be careful with organization. Décsi seems to me to be quite an inferior type, and Stein is probably of no use whatsoever. I like your youngster of the Rank series better. Wait until new people come to you. Your book will lead them to you as soon as it has overcome its latency period.
You mus