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Im Feld, Küsnach bei Zürich,
12 June 1909
Dear Professor Freud,
Many thanks for your letter. I had to tell myself that if a friend or colleague of mine had been in the same difficult situation I would have written in the same vein. I had to tell myself this because my father-complex kept on insinuating that you would not take it as you did but would give me a dressing-down more or less disguised in the mantle of brotherly love. For actually it is too stupid that I of all people, your “son and heir,” should squander your heritage so heedlessly, as though I had known nothing of all these things. What you say about intellectual overvaluation is right on every point, and to cap it I still have the absurd idea of some kind of moral obligation. All that is too stupid, but useful (last word in bold type and letter-spaced).
Not a word from Adler. From Frl. E—, who has started coming for treatment again, I heard that he is moving away from you and going off on his own, in the opposite direction to you, even.1 Is there any truth in it?