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Vienna, May 30, 1912
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
I think you have now found the only correct technique, and I am very happy about that.
I should also give you news from the remaining areas of human interest.
Yes, I was really in Constance from Saturday noon until Monday noon. I had been promising Binswanger a visit for a long time, was received like the dear Lord, also saw Stockmayer1 and a couple of younger doctors, was in the festive company of the Queen Widow,2 who sits enthroned on Estate Brunegg above Kreuzlingen. The next estate, ten minutes farther up, is Zeppelin's.3 I saw Arenenberg, where Napoleon the Third spent his youth4 on a nice, long automobile trip with Binswanger and Stockmayer on the afternoon of Whitsun, which slowly brightened up. The area around the lake is a garden, Constance is magically, beautifully situated, really at the point on Lake Constance where the Rhine flows out; Hohentwiel, known from Ekkehard,5 the tower of Radolfzell,6 the island of Reichenau; everything comes together there.
Of course you know Binswanger to be highly respectable, serious, and honest; he has little talent, knows it, and is very modest. He read aloud to me part of a paper of his, in which ΨA is compared with clinical psychiatry and which is based on good points of view. We also talked about Jung, and he informed me that, although he is close to him as a pupil, he never expects anything from him in the way of personal affection. He [Jung] is not a leader of men, strongly attracts men and then repels them with his coldness and lack of consideration. But he is also irreplaceable.
The three days were very good for me, despite two nights on the train and constant strain there. From now on I am also cutting down on my work somewhat and ceasing science altogether. In Munich, where I stayed from 10 to 12 at night, I even frightened old Privy Councillor Löwenfeld7 out of his sleep, but was actually happier with his splendid wife, Babette. When I returned, I found requests