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Vienna, March 3, 1912
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
Thanks for your paper. It was immediately conveyed to Stekel together with my Recommendations,1 which have been completed in the meantime. Your feelings during last Sunday correspond to mine. So we have finally met on equal terms. The strange spring weather makes one think that it will be Easter Sunday in five weeks. Perhaps we will make the project of the brief Easter trip a reality. In his last letter Jung hinted that I must be angry with him, whereupon in my reply I came out of my reserve somewhat and scolded him.2 It does seem to me that he is rather neglectful of the interests of the Association. It is impossible to get a Korrespondenzblatt from the Central Office. The January issue is the only one to come out in the last six months. The groups learn nothing about one another and so become more and more isolated. He is not participating at all in the Zentralblatt and in Imago. Up to now the Jahrbuch has been delayed by 3/4 of a year.
On no account will it be a matter of indifference to you to hear that Elma has taken a great leap forward. Tracing back her compulsive attitude toward being disappointed by her father, her identification with him since, her desire for revenge, her striving to do to others what she has suffered through him, all that has been recognized by her with conviction. Since then she has been speaking and also behaving differently. Now there still remains the origin of the surface current [Oberströmung], which has mobilized repression without accomplishing anything proper itself. This probably originated during puberty and is connected with the image of her mother; it is genuinely feminine. The scheme would go something like this: