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Vienna, December 3, 1910
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
You will certainly be astounded that I didn't react earlier to your earthshaking communication to the effect that you were yourself a medium. I wouldn't even be able to write yet today if I weren't rather miserable with influenza and hadn't canceled the lecture (as well as the tarok game). You see, otherwise I am Schreber, nothing but Schreber, of course not until after
10 P.M., and there is a struggle for liberation connected with this work, the literary fruits of which still don't satisfy me.
I could not, of course, prevent your news from occupying me greatly. I see destiny approaching, inexorably, and I note that it has designated you to bring to light mysticism and the like, and that it would be just as futile as it is hard-hearted to keep you from it. Still, I think we ought to venture to slow it down. I would like to request that you continue to research in secrecy for two full years and don't come out until 1913; then, certainly, in the Jahrbuch, openly and aboveboard. You know my practical reasons against it and my secret painful sensitivities.
Now, I would like to know when you are coming to Vienna, since you have indicated you would come in December. Eitingon has announced his arrival here from Damascus on the 5th to the 8th.
The matter with Bleuler seems to be working out more favorably; he will stay with us in some form or other, although perhaps not in the Association. I am about to rendezvous with him in Munich (during Christmas), and Jung has promised to follow from the rear when he leaves.
It is constantly raining insults from Germany; Putnam has submitted his second paper for ΨA, just as chivalrous and decisive as the first but more practical. (Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Nov. 10). The first one will be published in the January issue of the Zentralblatt.1 The journal is, I think, awaiting original contributions from you. I will keep a close watch on the editorial board now. The matter wi