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Budapest, January 3, 1911
VII., Erzsébet-körút 54
Dear Professor,
You are right. One must from time to time interrupt communication by letter with a personal one, otherwise one all too easily loses contact with reality and corresponds not with a really living person but with one that one makes up in fantasy at one's pleasure. I also don't want to postpone my trip for long, but am waiting for the impending trip to Vienna of Frau G., who is going there with her daughter1 toward the end of this month to correct the scar which resulted from a tooth periostitis (in the daughter). I want to be of help to her in this matter.
If you offer us an opportunity to do so, we will also make use of our presence to ask your advice in a rather difficult matter (marriage and love affair of this same daughter). This business is causing poor Frau G. a lot of worry, and I am much too interested in it to be able to judge and act quite calmly.
As mentioned, I am very pleased about the peacemaking with Bleuler. Jung will have to strive to bind him to himself and to the cause with more tender treatment.
After mature reflection I must also unreservedly share your opinion about Jung's future role in psychoanalysis. His two great deeds: his courageous and independent stand in recognizing your ideas—as well as the first experiments in psychiatry assure him this role, even if he didn't accomplish any more. Where the Viennese have a head start over him is in the psychoanalytic routine acquired with you. But I see in my own case that only some practice and a little sense for solving psychological riddles is required to acquire this. But what eludes the Viennese and what Jung possesses in ever increasing measure is the recognition that psychoanalysis must begin with self-criticism, without which every analysis can acquire a paranoid wrapper (see Adler).
On the other hand, Jung easily succumbs to theological speculations, and he is also inclined to work too soon with metaphysical thought processes before wh