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Budapest, May 27, 1911
VII., Erzsébet-körút 54
Dear Professor,
Many thanks for your detailed letter; I would like to take up its points in order.
You seem to be judging the cooperation with Jung pessimistically (as I gather from your statements in regard to it). You are probably right when you take him to be a nongregarious worker. But if that is the case, then I will have to go public with my results independently of him. But I consider publication to be premature—all the more so considering I suspect it will be possible for me to establish induction with experimental certainty.
According to what you said, I must assume that, under revising my program with regard to the trip to Zurich, you understand giving up the visit with Jung. It has a depressing effect on me that psychoanalysis cannot enable two men to cooperate in common cause while setting aside—more correctly, mastering—personal sensitivities. Indeed, I demonstrated that myself when I so brusquely withdrew from our collaboration on paranoia.1 But this incident made me wiser, and for my part there would be no hindrance put in the way of working together honestly with Jung.
But if Zurich stays out, then I would come to your place at the end of August and would stay there until your wedding trip. I should be able to make some use of the time between September 14 and the Congress. Then the Congress would come, and the trip home would connect directly with it.
Strangely enough, I have lately been seeing many cases that correspond