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Küsnach/Zürich, 2 March 1910
Dear Professor Freud,
I was very perturbed by your letter1—all sorts of misunderstandings seem to be in the air. How could you have been so mistaken in me? I don't follow. I can't say any more about it now, because writing is a bad business and all too often one misses the right note.
Many thanks for all your news. The first thing about your conception of the ucs. is that it is in striking agreement with what I said in my January lecture on symbolism. I explained there that “logical” thinking is thinking in words, which like discourse is directed outwards. “Analogical” or fantasy thinking is emotionally toned, pictorial and wordless, not discourse but an inner-directed rumination on materials belonging to the past. Logical thinking is “verbal thinking.”