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Budapest, July 8, 1917
Grand Hôtel Royal
Nagyszálloda
Dear Professor,
I was somewhat afraid about the impression that the Tátra and the conditions there would make on you, and I am happy that you have made friends with it and that the first unpleasant impression made room for a more favorable one. In retrospect I notice what a responsibility I assumed with the recommendation about where to stay. A bad summer certainly has an unfavorable effect on the whole year. Thank heavens things have gone, or seem to be going, without incident.
The Tátra and I are old friends. Certainly I, too, will not be able or be permitted to climb. But some walks are certainly still within our reach.
I thank you for your effort at the Hotel Móry. The “lady doctor” whom you met there is a good acquaintance; she is a relative of Ignotus, who will also, incidentally, come to the Tátra. If you see Frau Garai (that's what the lady dentist is called), please be kind to her. She is an intelligent adherent, also owes something to analysis. I animated her directly to look you up.—
I think you are right in everything you write about Frau G. and our relationship; today I will write to her once again along the same lines. We will be able to talk about this personally in a more comfortable fashion—and quite soon.
On the 23rd I want to visit my old mother in Miskolcz and then continue on on the 24th and reach the Tátra on the same day.
I am lacking the time and mood for work. In the sessions a few pretty observations, which are crying out to be written down.—The visit with Dr. Róheim was unedifying; I fear that his book about the “Zauberspiegel,” with all its erudition, will show the traces of his somewhat grandiose, and at the same time all too chic, attitude. “Functional symbolism” seems to him to mean the same salvation from sexuality as did earlier the astral interpretation of myths. Still, the material will certainly be worth reading, and some of it even ingenious.
I will endeavor to get some bacon and cheese