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Vienna, January 3, 1911
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
As a New Year's present, the following prophecy for your collection, perhaps the nicest piece that you have to date, as far as I am familiar with the material.
Woman, 37 years old, fallen ill with an obsessional neurosis since being informed by her husband that the cause of her childlessness lay in his azoospermia.1 Beginning with symptoms of anxiety in her 27th year. A year later (28th yr.) It was prophesied by a soothsayer in Paris from the lines in her hand that she would go through great struggles and have two children by her 32nd year. She consoled herself with that for a time; so now the prophecy is five years late.
Analysis. The struggles are clear from the situation. She had always wanted children; she, herself, was the eldest of five siblings. She vacillated at that time about whether she shouldn't leave her husband. Still, it is