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Burghölzli-Zürich, 21 March 1909
Dear Professor Freud,
I really think that all obstacles are at last out of the way now. Next Thursday (March 25th) I shall, irrevocably, be in Vienna towards evening. My trip to Berlin passed off in no time, without incidents, and was of course less necessary than expected, which is the way the world wags. At least I have the good still to look forward to. I have re-booked our room at the Hotel Regina.
Recently I got a letter from a neurologist in Munich, Dr. Seif,1 asking if he could work with me for a few weeks. Something seems to be stirring after all. My man from Tübingen has made good progress. He is a fine and honest chap who will do his work under the cover of secrecy. Otherwise no great news; the holiday lull has descended and I have little time to think of useful work as my house-building and private patients give me plenty to do. I'm waiting for the summer, when I shall plunge into work with rapture. The shackles of the institute hang heavier on me every day.
Lately I visited Haberlin. He is a far-sighted fellow with an unforeseeable future. I don't know how well his creative drive will hold up. I only hope the cares of this world don't get him down; his financial situation is not exactly brilliant. A doughty character with plenty of fight in him. He was born in the same village as I, he the son of a schoolteacher, I of a parson. Now we meet again in this field. He tops Pfister by a head in psychological acuity and biological knowledge, and has studied theology as well as philosophy and natural science. Nor does he lack a certain mystical streak, on which account I set special store by him, since it guarantees a deepening of thought beyond the ordinary and a grasp of far-reaching syntheses.
Don't know yet what the critics are saying about the Jahrbuch.
Joyfully looking forward,
Most sincerely yours, JUNG