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Hotel Annenheim und Seehof am Ossiacher See (Kärnten),1
Annenheim, 27 August 1907
Dear colleague,
You will forgive me for addressing you more formally in an open postcard.2 — Well, your letter was charming and once again showed me more of you than I could have learned from a whole dissertation. At the beginning you found yourself face to face with a serious matter and seemed frightened at the contrast. I should be very sorry if you imagined for one moment that I really doubted you in any way. But then you pulled yourself together and took the only attitude one can take when confronting one's + + +3 unconscious, to wit, one of humour, and yours turned out delightfully.
I was predisposed in Abraham's favour by the fact that he attacks the sexual problem head on; consequently I was glad to provide him with what material I had. Your picture of his character seems so apt that I am inclined to accept it without further examination. Nothing objectionable, yet something that precludes intimacy. You make him out to be something of an “uninspired plodder,”4 which is bound to