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Budapest, July 14, 1911
VII., Erzsébet-körút 54
Dear Professor,
I certainly hope that the deeply tragic mood about which you wrote to me in your last letter has finally lifted, and I was happy that your ucs. already surmised this in advance (as the symptomatic forgetting showed). But, on the other hand, I have to admit that I would like to have read that letter, possibly out of egoistic and infantile motives for the most part, but it can't be completely denied that perhaps a trace of wanting to sympathize sprang from more honest sources.
You have a difficult year behind you; the “Adler” episode has caused you much unnecessary struggle. I think we have yet to struggle with some Adlers; the paranoid manner of reaction to psychoanalysis will run its course everywhere; I fear that I have already properly worked in an Adler (and a less talented one, to boot)—Eisler,1 whom you already know. Having been warned by the events in Vienna, however, I will keep a close eye on him, since I can no longer get rid of him.
My brother's suffering is getting worse. I have inwardly “settled” this case a few times already, but every new phase of the illness shakes up my