You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
Internationale Zeitschrift für Ärztliche Psychoanalyse
Budapest, September 15, 1913
Dear Professor,
After your departure I remained in Munich another one and a half days and spent the entire time in the company of Lou Salomé. I saw as little of Munich as you did of Budapest that time; her interest in scientific matters is so great that in her company one can't talk or think about anything else. Once, v. Gebsattel1 was also with us; he was a philosopher up to now, but then he changed saddles2 and became a medical student in order to take up Ψα. His philosophical origin is now manifesting itself in his inclination toward terminological discussions; even “prospective tendency” and “finality”3 are not completely foreign to him, although he thoroughly disliked the pietistic Swiss lectures.
I would have liked to talk with Dr. Hattingberg,4 but I didn't meet him; v. Gebsattel told me that he inclines toward Adler. (This would fit in with the fact that in his lecture he especially stressed the biological side of anal erotism, in places clearly at the expense of the psychological.)—In Vienna I visited my nose doctor, who for the time being has refused to carry out an invasive operation and has satisfied himself with “contused dilatation.” I was, of course, pleased about that and rushed home, where I arrived Friday evening. Frau G. was waiting for me at the station. She is well and cordially returns your greetings.—My early arrival gave me two vacation days in Budapest, which I spent very pleasantly with Frau G. The news about Elma—who is beginning to set her mind on the idea of marriage to the Swedish-American writer—obviously loosened hidden threads in me that still bound me to her. I feel cheerful, free, and eager for work—am also getting along with Frau G. much more naturally and uninhibitedly.
Today was the first day of work. My office hours were full; today I have two, day after tomorrow four hours. In my free hours I got the old manuscript of the Weimar lecture on homosexua