You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
Budapest, August 3, 1911
VII., Erzsébet-körút 54
Dear Professor,
The healing of my brother's wound is progressing normally, so I expect to be able to begin my vacation on Tuesday, the 8th. I want to fritter away the first eleven days here in Hungary, a few days with my sister in the country,1 then two days in Eperjes,2 a town in northern Hungary, where they can supposedly show me two mediums who work miracles; I would like to look at them from the standpoint of induction. My friend Berény,3 a talented young painter, is accompanying me on this expedition. Then come a few days in the Tátra, so I will be in Bolzano around the 19th-20th and will be able to spend the rest of my planned four weeks of vacation near you.
The depressive impressions of the last month have paralyzed all scientific activity in me. Symbolism, induction—everything is resting, or silently ripening, but I don't know anything about them. I am utilizing this period of intellectual paralysis to translate some of my German writings into Hungarian and to prepare the second edition of “Lélekelemzés,” which will be published in the fall. At the same time I am having your Five Lectures published in Hungarian; I am just now publishing the last of these lectures.—Recently I was unable to withstand the temptation just once to oppose our Hungarian opponents from the university. I did that by publishing my Nuremberg lecture about the founding of the IPA.4 I also wanted to show the people how well things are going already in ΨA., and I put