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[Vienna,] XVIII
Khevenhüllerstr[asse]61
Dear friend,
It was also a great disappointment for me that you had to break off your second stay in Vienna so quickly.2 How one shouldn't postpone anything! Everything is so uncertain.
Thanks for your many interesting reports, not least for the excerpts from your Congress lecture. The so-called second function of dreams is certainly its first (mastery, see Beyond the Pleasure Principle)!3 Your second piece is of that characteristic which is so inestimable to me, which I respect so very much, like your theory of genitality.
I think I am slowly coming up to strength here. Our place of residence in Pötzleinsdorf is ideally beautiful and pleasant. Dogs and humans feel very well here. One forgets that one is actually living in the eighteenth district of a large city. I am giving all five hours, am wrestling with the last remnants of what I owe in replies, and have not yet got to my actual work. My