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7 March 1926
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Jones,
I am writing to you from the Cottage Sanatorium, to which I retired the day before yesterday because I had several attacks of cramp in the street and my friend, the internist Braun, diagnosed a heart condition that calls for care.1 The prognosis is favorable, and I expect to be discharged within a few weeks. I get heart therapy here, conduct three analytical sessions a day, and, on the whole, feel subjectively very well. This incident will naturally reinforce the tendency to restrict to the utmost all formalities connected with the date 6 May. I should like to leave Vienna, but that cannot be done. Consequently, I shall stay here and, as the sixth falls on a Thursday, will devote the following days, including Sunday, to my friends and visitors.
I very much regret that my views on telepathy have plunged you into new difficulties. But it really is difficult not to offend English sensibilities. I sometimes really felt I should not have written Das Ich und das Es, for das Es cannot be rendered into English. There is no likelihood of my placating English public opinion, but to you I do want to explain my seeming inconsistency in the question of telepathy.
As you remember I already expressed a favorable bias toward telepathy during our trip to the Harz. But there was no need to do so publicly; my conviction was not very strong, and the diplomatic aspect of preventing psychoanalysis from drawing too close to occultism very easily retained the upper hand. Now, the revision of Traumdeutung for the collected edition gave me the impetus to reconsider the problem of telepathy. In the