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Vienna, June 21, 1915 IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
Thank you for your letter and news, and [I am] very satisfied that you have found new material to introduce into your work. I have received from Rank what you sent him. Read the allegories and the little Latin aphorism1 with much pleasure. Something is still holding me back somewhat from the work on conviction; perhaps something from Munich is attached to it.2
I can write little about summer plans. My wife definitely wants Karslbad, although with respect to that3 I am better than since 1909. It will probably be [Karlsbad] for the first part [of the summer]. This Saturday I am going to Berchtesgaden to have a look around on the Salzberg. Minna is in Reichenhall and will probably come over; otherwise I also have to go to Reichenhall. You see how little prospect there is for a meeting in summer proper. In fall I will certainly visit you in Pápa.
I am working reluctantly but steadily. Ten of the twelve papers are finished, two of them (Consciousness and Anxiety) of course in need of revision. I have just completed Conversion Hysteria; only Obsessional Neurosis and Synthesis of the Transference Neuroses are missing.4 There is much in it, but it has many peculiarities and is not properly completed.
Rank and Sachs were both taken, but the former is staying in Vienna and can carry the flag for a while longer. I was already very worried that we would have to call them up now already.
My son Martin is evidently participating in the big offensive,5 occasionally writes interesting war reports, and then again a card to the effect that he is bored. He evidently doesn't take interruptions well. Ernst was already here a few times from Wiener Neustadt and is always splendid. Oli and Anna have examinations at the same time during the first days of July and are cramming at present.
For this evening they are expecting news about the evacuation of Lemberg.6 There is no assurance that with this there will be an end to it.
I greet you cordially