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Vienna, January 23, 1912
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
Your rooster-man1 is precious. I will probably ask you to give me the observation for the work on Totem or to publish it without reference to the Totem. Scientific handiwork has a need for little things like that.
It is my intention with Elma not to let myself be restrained by any danger of influencing her by the truth when I report to her, especially since I know that a decision will be possible for you only after the end of the treatment. We have accomplished little for the time spent up to now (two weeks). She still presents the mask of the poor child who accepts everything I tell her, but has no interest in it and therefore doesn't produce anything. But resistance is already clearly shimmering through. It says: Just get out of the treatment as soon as possible. One can also get married without having any clear feelings beforehand and still be happy. She takes as a precedent for that the example of her cousin here. But that could be the transference of the driving situation in her life up to now, flight from her father, on whom she is fixated, to all kinds of young people who have been selected in such a way that she can't marry them, so that she stays home again until her father renews the infantilely fantasized seduction. The affective and intellectual superstructure over this complex skeleton seems to be quite poor, although I won't be able to pass judgment until I get further.
The affair with Jung is as follows.2 Two weeks ago I earnestly inquired about how he was when I learned about his injury3 through Pfister. He didn't reply, and has written only once in the meantime about editorial matters, whereupon I responded matter-of-factly under the heading “business,” as is customary with us. I am not writing spontaneously now, and I urgently request that you not intervene. It cannot be a matter of Ψα openness on my part, since he is silent and hasn't been giving honest information, and I am not inclined toward “t