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Karlsbad, July 28, 1912
Dear friend,
I am following with interest all reports about the events in your most intimate life, but I still think that my only duty as a friend is to leave you in peace.
—Sophie's engagement has been concluded in the meantime, is already in the Hamburg papers, and is supposed to be made public today in Vienna. He is a particularly fine and serious person. We easily recognized that much in him in Karlsbad. I think she will have it very good with him.
We are actually very well here. Only today it is supposed to be rather too hot. I can't work at all; everything drowns in hot saltwater.
It is now quite clear with Jung. I received the following letter from him after five weeks' interruption:
“Z. K.1 July 18, 1912 Dear Professor,
Until now I didn't know what to say to your letter. Now I can only say: I understand the Kreuzlingen gesture. Whether your policy is the right one will become apparent from the success or failure of my future work. I have always kept my distance, and this will guard against any imitation of Adler's disloyalty.
Yours sincerely, Jung”
This letter seems to me to be a flat refusal, despite some incomprehensible things—for what does he mean by the Kreuzlingen gesture?2 What is the policy supposed to be that will be proven by the success of his work? Binswanger, to whom I have sent a copy because he alone has been oriented toward the “Kreuzlingen gesture,” has the same impression. I will not reply right away; I can also give myself weeks' time and do absolutely nothing, which will facilitate a formal break. We can just see.