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Vienna, October 17, 1912
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend
A negative proof of thought transference. The day before yesterday I wanted to write to you since I hadn't heard from you for so long, and from this intention I came to the conclusion that you were just then occupied with [writing] a letter to me, so I postponed my action so that the letters wouldn't cross each other. But the assumption proved to be false, at least on superficial examination.
Now for some news: I have written a small paper on technique1 for the Zentralblatt, a continuation of your suggestions, and I have promised five more for this volume. Since then I have been working on Animism (Omnipotence)2 and am furious about Wundt.3 It is a harsh punishment to have to read this rubbish in the evening after eleven hours of work.
I have invited a review board here on Sunday, consisting of Reitler, Hitschmann, Tausk, and Federn. I have made it known that you are an external member of it. I will ask to have the papers about the last Jahrbuch in after exactly a month and ask you also to adhere to this deadline for the most vital piece, your paper on Jung's work on Libido.4 So, we will open hostilities. The best defense is a good offense.
A long letter from Maeder about our differences, very friendly, open, and decent; no attempt at all to gloss over Jung's behavior, but otherwise full of slanted views and clear anti-Semitic stirrings. You will receive it as soon as it has been responded to (on Sunday); I can't let him wait too long for an answer.
Stekel is a swine and is incessantly inventing new unpleasantness, petty jealousies, and insults. The “Writers' Dreams”5 are miserable trash; but he always wants to be praised. A valiant book by Marcinowsky, which is a dignified attempt to find favor with the public, has likewise been published (“The Courage to Be Oneself”)6
Last Wednesday was not good. Sachs has botched things greatly with his methodology of the theory of instinct.7 According to my mood, I would sooner comp