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Vienna, May 1, 1910
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
You would be gratified to see how mild the Viennese “brothers” have become since that great revolt at the Nuremberg Reichstag; they are downright affectionate and respectful with me. Above all, it has to do with the new monthly,1 which Deuticke doesn't quite want to bite into, and about which we are therefore in the process of negotiating with Bergmann. I think it will indeed come into being and will appear in October. I hear little from Jung; the latest, a telegram: advice on what to do because Bleuler doesn't want to go along. No explanatory text since.2
The vacation this time is very important to me as well. The last two summers I, too, did not have the fairy-tale feeling of living in freedom and beauty. I am very much in agreement with your decision about Brill, for the same reasons. Write to him yourself in this vein. It is quite doubtful whether he can come with us anyway.
Our plans for the summer are beginning to take shape. I have been forced into a decision in favor of the sea by the need to be no further than a day's journey from Hamburg,3 and my Dutch patients here have been the decisive factor in choosing a beach in Holland. We have been looking at a place near Leyden that is spelled something like Nortwyige, and we will probably make a decision soon. From there I can probably best travel to our meeting place by ship if Holland is too far for you to go. That will give us nice material for plans and decisions in the next few months.
Your work on paranoia should come into being. It doesn't make sense to stay away from it because Jung is working in the area, and our understandings about the attempt at cure,4 about the hypocrisy of paranoia and the like that we reached in the woods,5 should be taken up there. I recommend to you as well the case of Hofrichter6 as exquisitely typical, especially now after the establishment of his love for his wife, which, as the amorous adventure in the hotel shows, was evidently ve