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Vienna, February 10, 1913
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
In order to establish further “points of agreement,”1 I will say how very forcefully your assessment of neurasthenia has come home to me. I have always been of the opinion that sexual physiology lies behind the actual neuroses in the same way that ego psychology lies behind the paraphrenias.
Do as you wish with translations.
The temptation to go along with you to Corfu was strong, but brief. Aside from the unpleasantness that goes along with being three, this is not the proper time to dispense with a few thousand crowns on account of one's wretched health. That doesn't apply to you, you are young and independent. More and more I see the necessity of confining myself to anal erotism2 and am thinking of fulfilling my primary function, i.e., to earn money, as intensively as possible. Actually, I have to go to England very briefly during the Easter holiday—over by way of Holland, back by way of