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Budapest, October 12, 1910
VII., Erzsébet-körút 54
Dear Professor,
Before I—in acceding to your request—turn my attention to the present, I must still return—albeit briefly—to personal matters. They have been temporarily resolved through my reply and your response to it; each of us has defined his point of view, and determined the motives of his actions to the fullest extent possible. I call this resolution temporary because I do not want to give up hope that you will let a part of your withdrawn homosexual libido be refloated and bring more sympathy to bear toward my “ideal of honesty.” You know: I am an unimpeachable therapist. I don't even want to give up the paranoiac as a total loss. So how could I warm up to the fact that you extend your—in part, justified—distrust to the entire male sex! There is certainly much that is infantile in my yearning for honesty—but it certainly also has a healthy core.—Not everything that is infantile should be abhorred; for example, the child's urge for truth, which is only dammed up by false educational influences. (See Freud, Leonardo da Vinci; see also Freud's views on the enlightenment of children1 —etc.) I still hold firm to the conviction that it is not honesty but superfluous secrecy that is abnormal, although I do admit that the former can be overly emphasized by infantile influences. I am grateful to you for every word that you say or write about my behavior, no matter how unpleasant it may be. Now, to return to the present, I must at the outset actually come back