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Burghölzli-Zürich, 26 November 1906
Dear Professor Freud,
By the same post you will be getting an offprint, a reply to Aschaffenburg's lecture.1 I have tailored it a bit to my subjective standpoint, so you may not agree with everything in it. I hope I haven't misrepresented you! In any case I wrote it out of honest conviction. Incidentally, I have also championed your cause at the congress of alienists in Tübingen2 amid stifling opposition; Geheimrat Hoche3 in particular distinguished himself by the inanity of his arguments. Happily enough Prof. Gaupp4 then moved a little closer to our side, at least conceding that the matter was worth looking into.
Recently I have been analysing another obsessional neurosis—a German colleague—naturally with sexual complexes dating back to the 7th year! After the very first sitting the anxiety disappeared, but in the meantime has shown a strong tendency to return, of course only in reaction to traumas. It seems to me that it is of the greatest prognostic importance for therapy whether tic-dispositions and well-established stereotyped habits of thought are present (habitual splitting-off