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11 April 1906, IX. Berggasse 191
Dear colleague,2
Many thanks for sending me your Diagnostic Association Studies,3 which in my impatience I had already acquired. Of course your latest paper, “Psychoanalysis and Association Experiments,” pleased me most, because in it you argue on the strength of your own experience that everything I have said about the hitherto unexplored fields of our discipline is true. I am confident that you will often be in a position to back me up, but I shall also gladly accept correction.
Yours sincerely,4 DR. FREUD
The printed letterhead (on a small sheet, 51/4 x 63/4”) has been simplified for this edition. For the full heading, see the facsimile of this letter on facing page. “IX.” means Vienna's ninth Bezirk, or district. Hereafter, “Vienna” is supplied, unless Freud used unheaded paper. At 52 F he began using a different letterhead.
Holograph: Geehrter Herr College, a rather formal salutation; Freud used it with occasional variations until 18 F.
Diagnostische Assoziationsstudien: Beiträge zur experimentellen Psychopathologie, Vol. I (Leipzig, 1906), containing six studies by Jung and other doctors at the psychiatric clinic of the University of Zürich (i.e., Burghölzli Hospital), edited by Jung, who had directed the research. The studies had first appeared as articles in the Journal für Psychologie und Neurologie, 1904-6. Six further studies appeared 1906-9; collected in Vol. II (1909). All were tr. by , Studies in Word-Association (London, 1918). Those by Jung (including “Psychoanalysis and Association Experiments,” orig. 1906) are in CW2. / Freud's first published reference to Jung, an allusion to these association studies, occurred in June 06 in a lecture before a University seminar on jurisprudence: “Tatbestandsdiagnostik und Psychoanalyse,” Archiv für Kriminalanthropologie, XXVI (1906) = “Psychoanalysis and the Establishment of the Facts in Legal Proceedings,”