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Budapest, May 13, 1911
VII., Erzsébet-körút 54
Dear Professor,
In the case of “Kohn,” cryptomnesia can naturally not be excluded (as, by the way, is hardly ever the case), but it is highly improbable. He is a young soldier (platoon leader), probably from the provinces. I haven't spoken to soldiers for many years, and it is not very probable that I may have had something to do with him before he became a soldier. But he is from Budapest, so I could have treated him (or a member of his family) in the polyclinic of the Workers' Health Service. Too bad I avoided a conversation with him.—Transference can't be excluded. Still, I consider it possible that certain strongly feeling-toned ideational complexes are in a constant state of arousal, among them the determinations of one's own ego come into