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Budapest, April 5, 1910
VII., Erzsébet-körút 54
Dear Professor,
Your letters always give me extraordinary satisfaction in my intellectual and emotional isolation. This time your letter had this effect to an increased degree; being together for days with people of like mind spoiled me—and this evening I caught myself singing a Hungarian song with the following text: “On the great ball of earth no one so orphaned as I.”1 —You told me once in Berchtesgaden: “Man must love something.” That could also be craft and science. But obviously not exclusively. One must also love people if one wants to be happy.—Now, I'm not quite lacking in that respect, either. I have such a person, as you know. But external circumstances, enviousness of people (who appear to have conspired downright maliciously to persecute every happiness that doesn't have the authorities' official stamp of approval), make our encounters as difficult and infrequent for us as possible. The few hours that I spend in this company, which brings me intellectual and emotional satisfaction, are practically everything that life offers (apart from the satisfactions of work). Obviously that is not enough for me, and I have to say that Jung is right when he urges me to gather young men around me whom I can teach and perhaps also love somewhat. For the time being, you must—for better or for worse—allow me to attach such a large portion of libido to you. Possibly, no, undoubtedly, you are right in your supposition that brother envy has not yet been overcome within me. As an antidote to this it will also be good to take younger brothers under my tutelage; the teacher (father) role will satisfy my ambition, and I will be able to walk up to my older brothers (Jung, Adler) sine ira et studio.2
The other solution (getting serious about Frau G.) has often been discussed between us. There are actually no material difficulties, except for those that concern for her unnmarried daughter3 and for the two-sided (partly communal) relatio