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Budapest, June 27, 1910
VII., Erzsébet-körút 54
Dear Professor,
The stomach pains that I began to feel last year at this time are making their presence known again. But I was warned—and two days' diet has put everything back in order. Unfortunately, they happened to be the days that I wanted to use for the trip to Vienna; I would like to hope that the brother complex had nothing to do with this stomach trouble.
You have learned from Brill details about the sudden end of the American adventure1 —which was certainly hopeless from the beginning. I am actually glad; the man would have given me too much to do. Incidentally, he behaved quite nicely.
The Hungarian-Jewish patient whom you sent me is a Jacksonian epilepsy;2 the ophthalmologist to whom I sent her saw the attack (cramps on the right side—localized to that of the facial paralysis). I sent her home, prescribed mercury, then iodine, and told her to come back in six weeks.
The trip in the fall is the main object of my daydreams, which I catch myself at during some of the more monotonous analyses. I, too, am beginning—to count the days. Unfortunately, I have too many of them!
Brill's presence3 hindered the otherwise very refreshing scientific and personal talk with you. I must console myself with the fall.
You were right when you advised me not to limit the idea of the pathological significance of the “latency period” to the “small penis” and “big mama” complex.4 I find almost daily new points of departure for maintaining that this significance is a much more general one.—