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Budapest, December 9, 1910
VII., Erzsébet-körút 54
Dear Professor,
I think I can also jubilate about your “Eureka.” Now, all of a sudden, much has become clear to me! (Much that I darkly intimated but couldn't make clear.) Among my many plans for work there is a note about “types of onset of hysterical illness,” where I seem to have been aware of the fact that repression as such is symptomless, and that its return only then signifies the beginning of the illness. But it is only the determination that it is always this way that makes this idea significant.
But all this is nugatory and insignificant in comparison with the progress that your theory signifies for our understanding of the choice of neurosis.1 “Constitution” has again fallen a notch—and what remains of it has become more comprehensible. Its great simplicity speaks decidedly in favor of the truth of your theory.
I can deliver a few oxen to you from Budapest for Hiero's altar, but I think you will find enough in Germany!
I won't go to Vienna until next year—probably in January. I am very much looking forward to seeing you again. The trip has not left behind anything unpleasurable in me (that I haven't tamed through insight).
Here is a little piece for the Zentralblatt.2 Please read it through and write to me about it; I would like to hear your opinion before I send it to the editors.
Tomorrow I am going to Miskolcz.
Again, I congratulate you on your beautiful solution to the question of the choice of neurosis.
Cordially,