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Kurhaus Semmering
Physikalisch-Dietätische
Höhen-Kuranstalt
Semmering, April 30, 1917
Dear Professor,
Today I am am writing only to ameliorate somewhat the mood into which the death of my friend Schächter put me.1 After my natural father, he was actually the one whom I loved and revered as a model. He was an Old Testament character, also a fighter by nature, very conservative and religious. Despite the fact that in our most recent relations we were never able to see eye to eye, I took his being as a model for myself for a rather long time. Only psychoanalysis loosened our relations to some extent, but