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26 November 1911
407 Brunswick Avenue
Toronto
Dear Professor Freud,
Many thanks indeed for your kind letter, including the complimentary remarks on my work; you no doubt suspect how important such encouragement is to me. At the same time I am sorry you did not put in some criticism; my request for such was seriously meant, for a hint from you goes a long way in correcting the errors I must make.
The news of my wife is not so good as when I wrote last. She does not want to go to Europe until next May, for she says she cannot stand being so long with the whole Atlantic between us in case of any urgent need. It looks therefore as if we shall cross together in May; I shall stay somewhere in Europe until the following Christmas. She has also had a bad recrudescence of her hostility towards analysis, and I am afraid her attitude will be one of submission to the treatment with a bad will, and with no hope. It will depend on you or Maeder if this attitude can be altered. She has been feeling very sickly, tired, and weak, and has an obsession that she will die this winter. The latter is no doubt a sign of resistance against the treatment, but I am hoping it also has an unconscious meaning of the desire for a new birth, for I know for certain that the ideas of birth (Mutterleib) [womb] and death are intimately associated in her mind. On the other side I am glad to say that our personal relations have greatly improved, and we have not been so happy together for a very long while. This is chiefly due to my own greater freedom on account of better self-analysis.
My copy of the Jahrbuch has just arrived, and I have been charmed with your Zwei Prinzipien article.1 It is a perfect little cameo, just as you give us sometimes, full of condensed thought artistically polished and finished. It is the kind of article from which we shall go on drawing new ideas and fresh inspiration for many years, always finding new things in it. How well it harmonises with Jung's great production in the sam