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.
Budapest, January 29, 1914
Dear Professor,
I hope that I will hereby initiate a series of letters which will not deal with illness (I mean my own).
As the event most worthy of mention since my return home I can only cite the talk by Prof. Apáthy (the neurofibril Apáthy)1 against psychoanalysis. He has put himself at the head of the “eugenic movement” and from this position has let loose against psychoanalysis—as a panerotic aberration of the Jewish spirit. A few “liberal” newspapers have reacted to this attack by defending the Jews, pointed to the “kernel of truth” in your theories, and warned about identifying psychoanalysis with Jewry.
In the next few weeks the critiques of my collection2 will come out; they will sound favorable because I didn't send any review copies to my prospective detractors.—
With the lawyer, the differences between the two types of women actually seem to be fading. His cs. predilection for Jews and his secret aversion to them—I think—has a connection with the castration complex.
I am more and more certain of being able to trace a case of impotence that I have been treating for a year and a half to anal-sadistic constitution. The patient sees (ucs.) in coitus 1.) an act of cruelty, 2.) incontinence(not urethral but anal). He retains sperm the way a normal person retains his