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Internationale Zeitschript Für Ärztliche Psychoanalyse
Budapest, April 26, 1913
Dear Professor,
Condition of health very satisfactory.—I am writing this time only in order to prepare you for the fact that a Dr. Varjas,1 a high school teacher, who is interested in psychoanalysis (see the last issue of Stekel's periodical, review section),2 wants to see you. He is an Adlerian; he recently wrote a shabby Hungarian Interpretation of Dreams,3 which was published in the local “Reklam”4 [an excerpt from your book, very popular; at the end he criticizes you by saying: it is not civilization that makes neurosis, but rather neurosis that makes civilization! (or something like that)].5 Very conceited. Now he wants to do a mathematical psychoanalysis: calculate the possible types of insanity and other psychic productions on the basis of probability theory. But he lacks (so he says), on the one hand, the mathematical, on the other, the psychiatric schooling. [Otherwise, nothing!]
I put up with him for a while. But in a dream that he told me he revealed himself to be an uncommonly vain man and one who is scientifically blinded by his vanity, and I became convinced that it really is that way with him.