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Budapest, November 22, 1910
Grand Hotel Royal
Dear Professor,
Interesting news in the transference story. Imagine, I am a great soothsayer, that is to say, a reader of thoughts! I am reading my patients' thoughts (in my free associations). The future methodology of ΨA must make use of this.
After a few rehearsals with Frau G.—which were downright stimulating—today I ventured toward my homosexual patient. Resounding success. I did four experiments. He had to think about people whom I don't know.
1st experiment. [He thinks of Taral, the English jockey who went to America.]1 I begin with the idea of an English material (of course, down deep I am thinking about Frau G.'s dress!), then (after a few other associations), come spats, hunt, map, cheater, counterfeiter, swindler [all things closely associated with sports in America].
2nd experiment. [He thinks of his boss, the managing director of a bank.] I begin with a paper scissors, desk, then (among other associations) editing. The director of a newspaper office. I said “director.”
3d experiment. [He thinks of a deceased uncle.] I constantly associate reminiscences of the foul-smelling Negro chambermaid at Brill's. [Explanation: my patient has decidely necrophagous thoughts in the ucs.—so in the cs. he is idiosyncratic with regard to all odors.]
4th experiment. [Patient thinks of the millennium monument by the sculptor Zala.2] I (among fifteen to sixteen associations): Elisabeth Bridge, bookstore, the hysterical wife of an engineer. Lévay (a name derived from the name of the city Léva). Zala is the name of a county.