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Vienna, April 24, 1910
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
I am not entirely happy with the tone of resignation and melancholy in your letter. I consider it to be a residue of the Nuremberg experience, for
which I share the blame, and I hope that it will soon ease. Your standing among the “hostile brothers” will again increase, and the future will have to prove you right.
For the time being the treatment has done them good; since they have the work in their own hands, they are much friendlier toward me and, for the moment, still in agreement among themselves. We are now meeting in the Doktorenkollegium1 in Steiner's house, 2 Rotenturmstrasse 19, where the library will also be moved. We have covered the cost through a long-term subscription. Outwardly the matter has not yet progressed very far; Zurich has also not been formally constituted because Bleuler is still in the hospital—or at least he was at the time of Jung's letter.
Deuticke is making things difficult for the new Zentralblatt because Stekel doesn't seem to him to be trustworthy. Stekel made all kinds of superfluous comments to him, from which Deuticke concluded that the purely scientific character of the periodical is not assured. I appeased Deuticke, and I think he will still do it.2 will certainly not commit myself much further, but rather let them test out the measure of their capabilities. The Zentralblatt is a sword that cuts both ways, certainly very powerful when it is used correctly.
You must also have been very pleased about the issue of the American Journal of Psychology.3 That is thus the first fruit of our expedition. Immediately afterward I sent out the copies of the German edition. Now we will hear that there is nothing new in it. Among the latest attacks, the letter about the session in Hamburg is noteworthy (correspondence of Hamburg Physicians, April 4, 1910).4 There they make the argument I had wanted to deflect by moving to Zurich, namely, that Viennese sensuality can't be found elsewhere! You c