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14 January 1908,
Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear friend and colleague,
Overwork and illness in the family have been responsible for my delay in answering. I miss out on a good many things when I am unable to communicate with you periodically. If you were here, I am sure we should have the most interesting things to tell each other about what can be learned from our cases—I am working on eleven of them at the moment.
In connection with Abraham you are too hard on yourself. He was very nice, but rather inhibited with me too; he is much freer in his letters. I believe he is prevented from unbending by preoccupations that I understand only too well: the fact of being a Jew and concern over his future. Incidentally, Oppenheim takes an interest in him, and even if he is not our friend, Oppenheim is a very decent fellow.
I received Binswanger's paper today.1 Of course I had no difficulty in recognizing you as a subject and was delighted with the boy's boldness in disentangling his own muddles.2