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12 November 1908, Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
I agree with you completely. It is an honour to have plenty of enemies!1 Now that we can live, work, publish and enjoy a certain companionship, life is not at all bad and I should not want it to change too soon. When the day of “recognition” comes, it will be to the present what the gruesome magic of the Inferno is to the holy boredom of the Paradiso. (That is, of course, the other way around.)
I was hesitant about Parker; in the light of Brill's reports, I decided to be very difficult; now that I have received and looked at his first issue, and especially after your remarks, I am declining. The paper is going very slowly; I am in harness from eight to eight. Would you take it for the second half-volume of the Jahrbuch if my inner distaste for indiscretion prevents me from writing my other contribution—about the rat man with the obsessional neurosis? (He is getting along splendidly.) I don't like to give anything so specific to other journals; it can only be intelligible to our more immediate circle, because it presupposes a knowledge of the Studies and of heaven knows what else. I would welcome your frank editorial opinion. But bear in mind that the paper is to be published in any case in the second volume of the Collected Papers.2
Since you ask me, I see no objection to breaking up Binswanger's analysis. The boy should have finished it by now. The bit of nimbus provided by the preface will be very good for the Jahrbuch.
I hear from Abraham that he has survived his first battle in Berlin.3 He is on dangerous ground in that advance outpost.
My anxiety man who, as you no doubt remember, was an officers' corps, is now in the midst of the most beautiful solutions which he himself discovers; he really deserves a doctor's degree as much as the