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Vienna, December 9, 1912
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
I already thought you were ill, as your letters indicated. I don't believe for a moment in your syphilis; I would soon have correctly diagnosed your Cheyne-Stokes here. A hypochondriacal trait is unmistakable in the case history. I am egoistic enough just now to wish you a speedy recovery.
I advised you to withdraw your paper after you had transferred the decision to me because Federn would otherwise have felt insulted, while you, as editor, are not allowed to. You should have a prominent place in the second issue with a critical study of Jung's Libido.
Jung has straightened things out well with Bergmann. We will pay 652 marks in damages and are free of him. Today I got confirmation from Bergmann that from now on (January) the Zentralblatt will no longer bear the title of an official organ of the International Association. The Association treasury will pay half, and I will pay the other half. I don't want the membership to be burdened in any way. That is worth 300 marks to me.
Otherwise, Jung is crazy [meschugge]; his letters are vacillating between tenderness and arrogant presumption, and all reports (Jones, Brill) show that he considers his little mistakes to be great discoveries.
Abraham is coming on the 20th of the month and will stay for three to four days. It would be nice if your condition would permit a trip to see us by then.
I am again very capable of work, have settled well analytically my dizzy spell in Munich, and even begun work on the long-delayed third Point of Agreement.1 All these attacks point to the significance of cases of death experienced early in life (in my case it was a brother who died very young, when I was a little more than a year old).2 The war mood3 dominates our daily life; it has not affected my practice yet, but it could turn out that I have three sons on the battlefield at the same time.
I ask you for further news soon and greet you cordially.
Yours,