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Vienna, April 6, 1911
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
Many thanks for your preparedness. I hope this trip will come into being, even though I am now not yet sure about our arrangements for the summer. Today I am sending you the intended critique of Stekel; he has declared himself willing to have me write it. I ask you to return it soon and will be very grateful for comments about it. I will then show it to him before it goes off to Jung, who is presently taking his Easter trip. I am constantly annoyed about the two—Max and Moritz1 —, who are also developing with great rapidity in a backward direction and will soon have arrived at a denial of the unconscious. But I am quite powerless against them, especially as long as I can't throw them out of the Zentralblatt. Enemies are much more comfortable; you can at least ignore them. I would also like to discuss this situation with you.
Best regards,
Freud
This is a humorous reference to Alfred Adler and Wilhelm Stekel, the editors of the Zentralblatt. “Max und Moritz,” a popular cartoon (1865) by the German artist and humorist Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908), depicts the pranks and the bad end of these two boys. Freud kept a Busch cartoon album in his waiting room.