Letter from Sigmund Freud to Sándor Ferenczi, August 17, 1910

Noordwijk, August 17, 1910

Dear friend,

Postscript to yesterday's treatise. Today I spoke with the agent in The Hague on the telephone and learned that he had in fact reserved a double cabin for us on the Yorck (August 29) on the main deck, and thus fulfilled none of our stipulations. Travelers to Italy on these ships are given no choice, they don't get to know their number until they are on board; they are, so to speak, stopgaps. For this reason we will regret all the less having changed our minds.

Finally received the Jahrbuch. Very nice. Jung shows himself much to his advantage in his critiques and remarks about Wittels. He is too discreet and inhibited in his paper about his Agathli; the analyst has not yet overcome the father.1 On the whole this volume is again a brilliant piece of countercriticism against Friedländer, Hoche, etc. If I knew, by the way, that the critiques in the Zentralblatt would show the same cheerful superiority as those by Jung here I would gladly remove its muzzle, but it seems more secure to me not to do that.

Cordially,

Freud

Enclosure: letter from Bremen.