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19 December 1909, Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
If you feel the same way about Binswanger's paper, I shall stop accusing myself of “crankiness”; I must have been right. But he doesn't seem aware of it, his answer was perfectly amiable and essentially evasive—when not illegible. He means to come to Vienna in January.
Ferenczi is definitely flourishing. The trip did him a world of good. I would venture to call him a trustworthy, superior, absolutely authentic man.
This time I should like to contribute very little or nothing to the Jahrbuch. Perhaps a very short piece1 in the style of the “Anal Erotism.” There was too much of me in the first volume. This time I hope the Swiss will take the center of the stage and I also hope the abstracts will do them justice. I know that many readers are waiting eagerly for these abstracts to guide them in their choice of reading matter. Our colonists in foreign fields, such as Pfister, should also speak up. I long for mythologists, linguists, and historians of religions; if they won't come to our help, we shall have to do all that ourselves.
Apropos of mythology: have you observed that the sexual theories of children are indispensable for the understanding of myth? I have finally received Knight, but not yet laid hands on Kaibel.
In the seminar yesterday a few impetuous young analysts submitted some papers which after due purification seem to show that the diction and symbolism of a literary work reveal the influence of unconscopis