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Küsnach bei Zürich, 10 January 1910
Dear Professor Freud,
Many thanks for your heartening letter. Mythology certainly has me in its grip. I bring to it a good deal of archaeological interest from my early days. I don't want to say too much now but would rather wait for it to ripen. I have no idea what will come out. But I quite agree with you that this whole field must first be divided up for monograph treatment, which shouldn't be too difficult as there is any amount of typical material that crops up now here, now there in variant form. So that's no problem. The main impedimentum is lack of knowledge, which I am trying to remedy by diligent reading. I am most grateful to you for your promise about Kaibel's monograph. The reason why I can't supply Dominik Müller's song1 in return is the sad fact that it is not included in the anthology, as I ascertained long ago. I have now written to the editor of the periodical where it was published.
It is with the greatest joy that I hear you will be coming to Switzerland in the summer. When will it be? My wife is looking forward to the company as eagerly as I. Your suggestion that I come to Vienna before or after Nuremberg has fallen upon equally fertile ground. Whether it will be before or after I don't yet know, because my military service is giving me a lot of bother this year—I must count on 7 weeks or more. I shall know my sentence in a few days and will then give you a definite date.
An answer plus an invitation has come from Königsberg. I don't know whether it can be combined with Nuremberg.
The enclosed is for you to correct.2 I'd be grateful if you could lecture on case material in Nuremberg, and I'd also be very glad if you could worm some lectures out of your pupils. I will do the same with my people. I'll try to organize something too, but am very unsure of myself as I'm oppressed by the feeling that I am just starting to learn. I caught this sentiment d'incomplétude from my coy new love, mythology. This “cour d'amo