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[Vienna,] October 26, 19131
Dear friend,
Your critique of Bleuler2 is precious, and well deserved. Your denunciations remind one of Zola's “en attendant toujours quelque chose qui ne venait point.”3 As a consequence of this, Narcissism is resting.
Kind regards, also to Frau G.
Yours,
Freud
Postcard.
In his review (1914, 150; Zeitschrift 2 [1914]: 62-66) of Bleuler's, “Kritik der Freudschen Theorien,” Ferenczi had attempted to refute Bleuler's critique point for point and had closed with the remark: “It would certainly correspond to the directly acknowledged negative tendency of Bleuler's critique if we, too, emphasized its negative factors in our discussion of it. We thereby also protect Prof. Bleuler from a repetition of the wrong that has been done to his theory of schizophrenia, which critics have (according to his own statement) ‘viewed as much too Freud ian.’”
“In constant expectation of something that never happened.” The source of the quotation from Emile Zola (1840-1902), one of Freud's favorite writers, has not been established.