Letter from C. G. Jung to Sigmund Freud, June 28, 1907

Burghölzli-Zürich, 28 June 1907

Dear Professor Freud,

First some “business” news: Dr. Stein1 of Budapest and another mental specialist, Dr. Ferenczi,2 want to visit you sometime in Vienna

and have asked me to inquire when it would be most convenient to you. Dr. Stein is a very decent fellow with a good intelligence, who has done some experimental work with me. He is still something of a beginner in the art, but has grasped the essentials surprisingly quickly and put them into practice. I think it would be best if you contacted him directly (Dr. Stein, Semmelweisgasse 11, Budapest).

Muthmann was assistant physician at the asylum in Basel. I'm afraid I have never had any personal dealings with him. I ordered his book at once. Bleuler tells me there is an amusing (corrected) passage in it which is very characteristic of Prof. Wolff's3 virile courage. Muthmann, incidentally, is not a Swiss but may have had his backbone stiffened in Switzerland.

Head physician Bolte4 in Bremen, who recently stuck up for you, and whose paper will appear in the Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie, is so far as I know a Bremener, coming therefore from a free city.5 The milieu obviously makes a big difference.

By the same post I am sending you a paper by a woman student of mine that will perhaps interest you. I think the basic ideas could be developed into a statistical complex theory.

I see from your kind gift that your Psychopathology of Everyday Life has gone into a second edition—this gives me sincere pleasure. It is good that you have considerably expanded the text—the more examples the better. I hope you will soon be able to manage a new edition of The Interpretation of Dreams6 as well; it sometimes seems to me that your prophecy that you will have won through in 10 years is being fulfilled. There are stirrings on all sides. You too will have received the book by Otto Gross;7 I certainly don't cotton on to his idea