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25 January 1909, Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
I know, once a psychoanalyst has his first successes behind him, he is in for a hard, bitter time during which he will curse ΨA and its originator. But then things arrange themselves and he arrives at a modus vivendi. Such are the realities! C'est la guerre. Perhaps my article on Methodology1 (which I am having trouble finishing) will help you all to cope with the most obvious problems, but probably not very much. However, it is only in struggling with difficulties that we learn, and I am not too displeased that Bleuler has deprived you of a teaching post. You will be a teacher in any event, sooner or later you are sure to have all the teaching you want, but one must be driven into ΨA-tical experience. It's good to have no alternative. “Only those who have no alternative do their best,” as (more or less) C. F. Meyer has the man on Ufenau say.2 I often appease my conscious mind by