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Burghölzli-Zürich, 10 October 1907
Dear Professor Freud,
Heartiest thanks for the excellent photograph1 and the splendid medallion.2 I am delighted with them. I'll send you my picture at once, although such an exchange seems almost absurd.
Yesterday and again today I felt furious with Weygandt,3 who has published an exceedingly stupid article in Ziehen's Monatsschrift. It is one of the worst bits of drivel I have ever read. And mean, too! I know Weygandt personally, he is a super-hysteric, stuffed with complexes from top to bottom, so that he can't get a sensible word out of his gullet; he is even dumber than Aschaffenburg. I would never have believed the German academics could produce so much beastliness.
However, underneath the dismal face of this coin there is a marvellous