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Budapest, October 23, 1911
VII., Erzsébet-körút 54
Dear Professor,
I wrote to Frau Jung along the lines of my last letter to you, touched on occultism and transformation of libido, and animated her to write letters to you.
I also considered the possibility that Jung suspects nothing of the whole matter, but I finally arrived at the presumption that his wife couldn't have produced the matter out of thin air.
I didn't want to triumph over you. Even if Frau Jung's impressions coincide with those of Jung, the both of us (Jung and I) could certainly be mistaken and consider our infantile needs to be our right. If Jung had the same complexes as I, that would still be no reason on my part to triumph over you. At most it would be an indication of how hard it is for one to renounce the communality of thought [Gedankengemeinschaft] with a being akin to a father.
At this point in my letter I have to draw a line and report a complication that I am unconsciously guilty of causing. I just read through your letter once more and notice, deeply ashamed, that I have carried out your instructions quite incorrectly.
The first misunderstanding was caused by you in reading my letter; I remember exactly that I did not have the intention at all (and also did not reveal the intention in the letter) to write to Frau Jung about your dissatisfaction with Jung's occultism and work on libido; I was only writing about my personal view! So I was somewhat surprised when I read in your letter this morning that I should touch on [streifen] the business with occultism and the paper on libido in my letter to Frau Jung. But I (as an obedient pupil) did it anyway, to be sure, in such a way as to talk about it as if it were an unsupported supposition, and I emphasized that I never have heard anything disparaging from you about Jung.—
You can imagine my unpleasant surprise when I now, naturally after mailing the letter to Frau Jung, read through the letter once more and see that, instead of touch on [streifen], I