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20 November 1910
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Doctor,
I heartily rejoice at the good news of your promotion and trust you will be called professor a year hence and enjoy the increase of influence attached to this title. I am glad you did not leave Toronto for New York.
As for P. Tausig he seems to be a blagueur indeed. He had nothing to do with the reception of your Hamlet into the series. It was Deuticke's idea, when I asked him to publish it as a brochure, and I remember to have made the proposition to you some time ago, when you declined for modesty or what else. I am sure it will hold a high place in the collection. Tausig has delivered the translation into my hands inscribed “Hamlet—Ein Sexualproblem”. You may be assured that I restituted the original title.1 There are many weak and even some bad spots in his work, which I will correct one of these days, before it goes to the printer. As for the fees of publication, Tausig states you left it all to him. I beg you will notify to Deuticke directly whether this is true or which share of it you claim. The name of Stanley Hall and the American Journal of Psychology will be brought out at the proper place, that's my business.
The ludicrous dream in the Gil Bias (or Diable boiteux?) was known to me, when I wrote the paper on Analerotik and I even alluded to it.2
The sexual theories of your patient find a counterpart in those of a lady whom I am treating, who is all filled up with air, meaning by air sexual products, leaning to the quotation from Genesis, that God inflated Adam by his “Odem” [breath] and proceeding from the same infantile theory, that married intercourse consists in blowing air into each others bowels from out the anus. There is indeed some good work to be done here.
As for the sexual components the Schaulust and Exhib.3 are only given as samples and you are free to add the other sexual interests to the list, subsuming the whole of these tendencies to an “Erkenntnistrieb”, when you remember that “Erkennen”