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13 March 1908, Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
In view of the business character of this letter, I hope you will forgive me for answering so quickly and in general for writing so often.
Everything is settled with the Hotel Bristol. In complete agreement with your idea of saving the discussion for the end (displacement downward). “Half an hour” might be qualified by “maximum.” I hadn't thought of the passage from Schiller's correspondence, which
you have received in the meantime, as an introduction but as a final cadence.
Now about my lecture.—I give in, that is the only way in which I can show you my gratitude. But I can't make up my mind to give you a definite title; a report on a case I am now engaged in might at a pinch be compressed into an hour, but the case is not finished, the decisive phase and outcome are still lacking, one mustn't count one's chickens, etc. If it should turn out badly, I want to be free to substitute something else; who knows what may happen in six weeks? So I would like you to announce something vague, “A Piece of Psychoanalysis,” or some such thing, whatever you say. That takes care of the business. Now there is nothing to stop you from casting the enclosed programme in the mould of eternity.
Of course I shall have much more to say about paranoia another time. Do you mean Fliess by Fl.? I must break off now because I want to reread your Dem. Praecox for tomorrow's final lecture.1
Most cordially yours, FREUD
At the University.