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Budapest, March 8, 1912
VII., Erzsébet-körút 54
Dear Professor,
I must once again write about myself, so that, after settling the personal matters, I can then uninhibitedly talk about other things.
The Sunday that I spent with you was a turning point for me. (The many corrections in this sentence, however, prove the uncertainty about it that still prevails in me.) The fact is that the experiences that came about through Elma's analysis significantly diminished her value in my eyes, and that my eyes have again focused on the qualities of Frau G. (from whom I have turned away up to now with a kind of defiant decisiveness) in such a way that the comparison must now again doubtless turn in Frau G.'s favor. At the same time I have been freed from the almost complete inhibition that has dominated my sexual life for months, and the status quo ante