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Burghölzli-Zürich, 22 January 1908
Dear Professor Freud,
Yesterday you will have received my bundle of impudent invitations, and I hope you will approve. I have moved the date as close as possible to Easter; it couldn't be any closer because of the Frankfurt and Berlin Congresses.1 Claparède, Jones and his friends are attending the first, Bleuler the second. I'm afraid we shall not be able to expect him in Salzburg, as he jibs at returning via Salzburg from Berlin to Zürich (financial considerations!).
I would now like to turn to you for help in regard to the specific working out of the programme. In the name of all my friends I am asking you to speak at our Congress. Nothing special would be needed by way of preparation. We would all like, just for once, to hear a lecture from you—something quite ordinary—in which you might present one of your cases; we all want to learn from you at this Congress. Perhaps you would be kind enough to tell us something systematic about your wide experience of hysteria (this would be of particular interest to me, as my Amsterdam lecture has left me with a frightful sentiment d'incomplétude!). I shall try to work up a paper on Dem. praecox, perhaps in collaboration with Riklin, and have encouraged Maeder to talk about sexuality in epilepsy.2 This will fill up a busy morning. The afternoon might best be spent on peripatetic wisdom.