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Vienna, October 6, 1910
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
It is remarkable how much better you can present yourself in writing than in speech. Of course, I knew very much or most of what you are writing about and now need to give you only a few clarifications pertaining to it. Why didn't I scold you and in so doing open the way to an understanding? Quite right, it was a weakness on my part; I am also not that ψα superman whom we have constructed, and I also haven't overcome the countertransference. I couldn't do it, just as I can't do it with my three sons, because I like them and I feel sorry for them in the process.
Not only have you noticed that I no longer have any need for that full opening of my personality, but you have also understood it and correctly returned to its traumatic cause. Why did you thus make a point of it? This need has been extinguished in me since Fliess's case, with the overcoming of which you just saw me occupied. A piece of homosexual investment has been withdrawn and utilized for the enlargement of my own ego. I have succeeded where the paranoiac fails.—Add to this the fact that I was for the most part not very well; I suffered more from my intestinal troubles than I cared to admit. And I often said to myself: he who is not master of