Letter from Sándor Ferenczi to Sigmund Freud, August 23, 1910

Budapest, August 23, 1910
VII., Erzsébet-körút 54

Dear Professor,

Upon my return from the Miskolcz diversion I received your letter of August 20, in which you indicate that you have something to do in The

Hague and want to meet my train. As a consequence of this I will keep to my original, then altered, travel plan and herewith confirm finally that I will arrive in The Hague on August 27 (Saturday) at 9:22 in the evening. The trip from Budapest to The Hague will take thirty-three hours without interruption; I fear that I will be useless for anything on the evening of my arrival.

If you should decide not to go to The Hague, I ask you to inform me of your intention by telegram.

I am a little frightened by the fact that you view my observations on thought transference as proven. All kinds of doubts, or, better said, a feeling of uncertainty, a desire for further, for many, confirmations have been aroused in me. I can certainly warm up to these things theoretically; I also know that they don't shake up psychoanalysis, they only make it more complicated. Perhaps one struggles against such discoveries, however, precisely because of the unexpected complications. But I know that it is a Danaan gift1 when one gets such ideas, that is to say, has such experiences.—We have time, though, to think about the thing's fate.

Best regards,

Ferenczi