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Vienna, January 5, 1913
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
I am pleased that you are well, now that we need you so urgently. I suggest that you postpone coming here until Jones is here, since a trip doesn't seem quite risk free for you. He is supposed to come on the 9th.
I will share with you the fact that I found a few good, polite, but unambiguous sentences to put an end to my private relations with Jung.1 The letter was sent the day before yesterday (the one I sent you was not sent, as you know). He wrote again today,2 but I don't need to reply any further. His behavior is neurotic and puerile. If he were in treatment with me and were paying for it, I would naturally have to put up with his utterances, but this way I can dispense with them and use my strength for other things.
I don't consider the errors of the Zurichers to be rectifiable, and I think that in two to three years we will cease to understand each other, as two completely different movements. So we don't need to direct our polemics toward convincing our opponents, but rather we will be able to criticize coolly and politely from a lofty position. In the meantime, the seeds of ΨA