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Barracks, Yverdon, Ct. de Vaud, 21 October 1908
Dear Professor Freud,1
My wife was naturally delighted with the surprise package of books. Evidently she has already thanked you in a becoming manner, as I see from your letter. Being on military service I am an even worse correspondent than before, so once again you have forestalled me. Your visit has done me so much good that I am firmly resolved, if circumstances permit, to pay you a short visit in Vienna next spring,
provided other demands are not made on your time. Many thanks for telling me about that paranoid idea. I have never doubted the possibility that products of this kind are psychogenic in origin since they are often found in normal people as well; only I did not dare to assume that the replacement of reality by such products was also psychogenic.
I have now received Abraham's abstracts.2 Have you looked at them? My chief writes that he called on you, but no other details.3 […]
I have now regained my zest for work and hope to put my back into it once my military service is over (Oct. 30). Three pupils, though, are lurking in the background like vultures. I shall have to attend particularly to the man from Tübingen.
The latest news of Gross is that his wife doesn't want to part from him because allegedly he is in good shape. Incidentally, have you seen in Harden's Zukunft4 the sort of thing Gross is writing now? If he keeps it up, the outcome may yet be good. His family have now accepted my diagnosis—a great relief for his wife.
Binet wants me to write an account of your dream theory for L'Année psychologique.5
With kindest regards,
Most sincerely yours, JUNG