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Budapest, June 12, 1910
Dear Professor,
The exotic stationery1 can be explained by the fact that today, Sunday, I am visiting Frau G.—She sends warm regards.
I found Pfister's vulture at first glance—it is really amazing.
One is astonished not to have found the bird oneself—although one has this feeling with all discoveries. Your Leonardo makes a deep impression even on those who already essentially knew its content.—There are so many ideas distributed among the few pages that they give one something to think about for weeks.—This first psychoanalytic pathography (Sadger's Lenau2 is too oversimplified) will serve as a model for all time. The explanation of your philosophy of life made the deepest impression on me: willful subordination under the rule of “Aμαγκη.”3
Something occurred to me yesterday: the myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha about the story of the origin of man4 is the mythological explanation of the infantile “Lumpf” theory (humans originate from bones (garbage)5 which are thrown backward between the legs).
The question of hypochondria is occupying me constantly. It really appears as though anal erotism and sadism are at the base of hypochondria + obsession—; I encounter this etiological mixture again and again in a case where these two states are combined.—
I still have the Pressburg case in treatment (Zayda); his paranoia has become more transparent to me—not to him!
I will bring along a very interesting case of circular alternation of sadism and masochism for the trip.
I find Adler's expression “masculine protest”6 prejudicial.
I am discharging the first cured case of severe obsessional neurosis in the next few days.