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Küsnach bei Zürich, 30 January 1910
Dear Professor Freud,
At last I can settle down to write to you at leisure. These last days have been a nightmare. I had two public lectures this week. One of them was part of a series of 6 lectures on mental disturbances in childhood,1 the other was to students, or rather to several scientific societies of students. The subject was “symbolism.”2 I have worked at it and have tried to put the “symbolic” on a psychogenetic foundation, i.e., to show that in the individual fantasy the primum movens, the individual conflict, material or form (whichever you prefer), is mythic, or