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Internationale Zeitschrift für Ärztliche Psychoanalyse
Budapest, February 8, 1913
Dear Professor,
Frau G. was quite astonished by the fact that the reply that you advised me to give corresponded almost word for word with the one that I had been thinking of giving Jung anyway. Now I have sent him our concurring reply (only in my own name, of course); I scarcely believe that he will respond to it; perhaps he will write to me that he recognized you as the guiding
spirit of my reply. But that is improbable.—Now, “we can wait;”1 we are now in the comfortable position of the courted suitor;2 this situation seems to suit the Zurichers better. As long as one treats them as well as the way you did until recently, they will play the recalcitrant ones; their secret (certainly specifically Christian) feeling of guilt (i.e., of the ucs. Oedipus fantasy which is dammed up and repressed especially strongly in them) does not permit them to believe someone who treats them well, i.e., doesn't want to punish them for their sins. But they recognize as their master every person who treats them contemptuously, repellingly, or even coolly. The lay accusations of the Zurich journalists3 have sufficed to fill them with the greatest anxiety. Maybe they will also grow suspicious when they get to hear nasty things from you and your Jewish adherents.
The first issue of the Zeitschrift was very well liked here. The layout is respectable, serious. I am full of confidence in the future of our newborn child. Would you please tell me briefly by return mail whether you will permit me to translate your article on technique into Hungarian with reference to the “Zeitschrift” and to publish it in a local medical journal?4 (N.B.: Half has already been translated.)
My influenza has abated, and I am also feeling better in other respects, even better than before my acute illness. My illness caused me to ponder about the subject of “neurasthenia.” The modern term “vagotonia”5 naturally says nothing about the nat