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Vienna, May 28, 1911
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
It was not until it was in print that I was able to acknowledge your paper on obscene words and appreciate the meaning with which you are able to endow my suppositions. I am very enamored of your idea and would only wish that you could present the most detailed proof of it yourself or through a linguist.1 An article that came to my attention yesterday in Jung-Ungarn2 [Young Hungary] showed me that your activity in Budapest is making an impression on the best forces in your homeland. You should console yourself if it happens to be physicians who behave in a refractory manner; it doesn't much matter.
When I finally have the Zentralblatt entirely in my hands it will no longer come to pass that a work of yours will wait so long for publication. All indications are now to that effect. To be sure, I no longer know what I have already told you and what I haven't. My head has become unreliable in the face of the difficulties of the last few weeks. As the matter now stands, Stekel has reconciled with me completely and has performed a very good service in containing the others. After I served Adler with the consilium abeundi, he contented himself with a qualified explanation and has remained in the Society along with his faithful for the time being.3 For the first time in a long while everybody has behaved properly. Stekel promises that secession, if it comes about at all, will do so in an orderly manner. In the meantime I have gone ahead with the operation and demanded directly of Bergmann that he remove Adler from the editorship.4 I will come out ahead with Stekel as the sole editor and be able to influence him better. I