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20 January 1912
407 Brunswick Avenue
Toronto
Dear Professor Freud,
I have for some time been hoping to hear from you, but I expect you have been very busy with your manifold tasks. Did you get my letter of November the 25th?1
I hear from Rank and others that you are very occupied on the religion question, and that you are also planning a new edition of the Traum-deutung, to be entirely re-written. That will certainly mean much work. I suppose you know that the psychological theories of the Traumdeutung (censor, repression, unconscious, etc.) have received the honour (?) of an article 120 pages long in the Archiv für die gesamte Psychologie (Heft II). The esteemed author condescendingly remarks that now since he has shown your theories to be wrong you will feel called upon to renounce them, but it does not seem to have occurred to him that there is another alternative.2
Your dream article in the Zentralblatt will surely be useful.3 Unfortunately I had had to learn most of the conclusions by bitter experience. I have had two or three patients who definitely showed their resistance by bringing me a flood of dreams every day, so that it soon became impossible to deal with them all. I think an article that would be much appreciated would be one explaining when and under what circumstances one should interpret for the patient without his direct help.
Life has been very quiet with me of late. My wife is about the same. She will cross with me in the early part of May. My writing has been confined to some short and unimportant articles. I read a paper before the Detroit Neurological Society early in December and one before the American Psychological Association at the end of the month.4 They will be printed, so that of course you will get copies. Probably you got safely a number of reprints some time ago. Were they satisfactory? I always like to have your opinion when you have the time to read my outpourings.
This morning I got a piece of good news that will please you; I suppose