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3 March 1936
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear Jones,
Your letter, about which you had asked Anna on the telephone, came yesterday. Of course I learn everything from your correspondence with her.
I am very pleased to hear that you will be in Vienna for the house-warming of our new home.1 As far as the celebration of my birthday is concerned, I really do deserve consideration. My heart responds to physical stress of any kind with disagreeable sensations. Analytic work does not bother me.
The matter of translating “Hemmung, Symptom und Angst” I handed over to Martin.
I can only give approximate answers to your questions about the history of PsA. The replacement of hypnosis by free association happened before the Traumdeutung, between 1895 and 1900; simultaneously I began to use the term psychoanalysis. When it first appeared in print would have to be ascertained by painstaking research—if it were worth the trouble.2
St. Zweig must know more about the Nobel Prize affair than can be gathered from the newspaper cutting, for it was he himself who once endeavored to get the prize for me. His text was probably distorted by the editor of the daily newspaper. What he says about a religio-historical work which I am preparing is not without foundation. Last year I wrote a work entitled “Der Mann Moses, ein historischer Roman”3 and told Zweig about it during his last visit. But the title already betrays why I have not published this work and will not do so. I lack historical verification for my construction, and since my results seem very important to me, containing as they do a denial of the Jewish national myth, I do not want to expose them to the facile criticism of opponents. The book would create quite a furor, and I am not in a position to guarantee the reliability of its assumptions. Only a few people have read the thing: Anna, Martin, Kris.