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Budapest, March 15, 1910
VII., Erzsébet-körút 54
Dear Professor,
I cannot serve up such interesting news as you, and certainly cannot report on such a depressing event as Mathilde's recent operation. I confidently hope that your strong constitution will also easily overcome this shock.
Dunapentele is not proving its worth. The man is too poor—hence, unreliable. You can't trust him with money—otherwise he won't show up for weeks on end. I gave him forty-four gulden as an advance—since then he reports only sporadically. With the exception of two so-so glass receptacles, he has brought nothing. The supposed “bronze” receptacle mentioned in my letter should be understood as the little clay receptacle in which the beads arrived.
Jung's mobility deserves much recognition. Let us hope he won't arrive too late!
I am in complete agreement with your plans. I am considering arriving in Vienna on the evening of Easter Sunday—but I won't disturb you that evening if you are still writing on Leonardo—but rather I will appear at your home on Monday morning.
I have been corresponding with Dr. Sachs since his paper; it is astonishing that someone who doesn't himself analyze can penetrate so deeply.
My laziness is on the wane. I have already written down the Nuremberg lecture, i.e., the motivation for rallying,1 as well as the preliminary draft of statutes. The latter still has to be talked through precisely. I am now writing a lecture on “Everyday Life,” which will be given at the Physicians' Association in April and will also appear in print.2 The paper on introjection is also awaiting translation into Hungarian. These two works have been designated for a second volume of my “Lélekelemzés.”3 The enclosed review of the latter from the pen of Arthur Schwartz appeared in Pester Lloyd.4 The local organ for medical professors is also writing similar but more trenchant things about it.5 Everything is explained in favor of the mutual suggestion of doctor and patient, and at the same time the as