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13 November 1912
Pension White
2 Piazza dei Cavalleggieri
Firenze
Dear Professor Freud,
I got your formal circular this morning,1 but had of course already sent my resignation to Stekel, and it is superfluous to say that I will throw myself into the new enterprise with a zest that needs no stimulation. I also told Stekel that my Angst paper could not now be published in the Zentralblatt.2 It can go to the new journal if you will accept it. It is satisfactory to think that the new journal will throughout represent our views with much less admixture of error than the Zentralblatt. What are you going to call it? Monatsschrist für ψα. Can you help me out of the following embarrassment in this connection? I am just going to collect subscriptions for the American Association, most of which money is for the distribution of the Zentralblatt. As it is, I don't know what to do about it. Can't the new journal be made the official organ of the Verein before the meeting in next September? Perhaps you will discuss this with Jung, who arrives home next week (so I hear from his wife). This would be just the occasion to show the use and function of a Council of the Verein, if we had an effective one.
I want to thank you very deeply for the details about my wife, which were just the kind I wanted to know. It was a great relief to read them. [You]3 I agree that the gain of treatment would be almost as great even if an organic element remained, but what you called her “fanatical” character makes her wish for “all or nothing”; she finds it difficult to reconcile herself to half-results in anything. You gave me good news about the progress,