You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
Burghölzli-Zürich, 28 October 1907
Dear Professor Freud,
I immediately put your good advice1 about the case of obsessional neurosis into practice with good results. Heartiest thanks.
The Näcke2 affair is most amusing. In any case N. is hardly worth bothering about. He is a queer bird who flutters like a will o' the wisp over all the backwaters of neurology, psychiatry, and psychology, and who must have popped up with uncanny frequency in your reading. He has just written an exceedingly strange, altogether crack-brained “historical” monograph on cramp in the legs. Ch. 1: Cramp in Ancient Egypt. Ch. 2: Cramp in Assyria, and so on. It doesn't surprise me that he couldn't refrain from sticking his nose into the great Freud debate. I don't know the critique as I haven't got the Gross Archiv.3
Your last two letters contain references to my laziness in writing. I