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[Budapest, between February 5
and 9, 19181]
Dear Professor,
Having returned after an uneventful trip,2 I am up to my neck in work. The time constraints caused me to undertake with a few patients, instead of a strict Ψα., at least a cursory Ψα. revision, and I must marvel at the therapeutic effectiveness of such rapid treatments, in contrast to the recalcitrance
in therapy which you complain about in the regular strict procedure. I cured a songstress with psychogenic hoarseness in one session. (I.e., I freed her of symptoms.)
A young colleague brought me his wife, whom I naturally was unable to accept. He came to psychoanalysis by way of Dr. Otto Gross. Dr. Gross is supposed to have worked in the hospital for infectious diseases in Ungvár as a physician attached to the Home Guard regiment.3 Naturally, he also made his circle of disciples there, who, among other things, had the duty without exception to enter into sexual relations with Dr. Gross's lover, named “Mieze.” They supposedly classified the young colleague, who found that repugnant, as “morally unreliable” for that reason. Incidentally, the young colleague had some time ago received news of Dr. Gross's death, which has, however, not been substantiated. He will still pop up here and there as a “Golem.”—
I am now rewriting the little paper about hysterical stigmata.4 There are still 200 pages missing from the translation of the Interpretation of Dreams. I won't be able to attack biology until I have taken care of these agendas.
Frau G. cordially returns your greetings and requests you to extend greetings to yours as well.
Balatonfüred is quite expensive. Dr. Schmitt, the chief physician of the sanatorium, calculates the minimum (i.e., if Fräulein Bernays settles for a modest room) to be forty-three crowns per day. He actually said forty-three to fifty crowns.
Should I inquire in Balatonföred as to whether appropriate lodgings and restaurants are available in the proximity of the spa (as I have seen it, by the way)?
No