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22 April 1910,1 Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
If Isserlin's article had appealed to me in any other way than by giving me a good laugh at his intimations of respectful commiseration, I should really deserve to be put down as a fool. No, I disagree with nothing in your criticism and adjure you to persist in your silence until those gentlemen approach us in a very different way.
Friedländer's resemblance to our companion in the car going to Rothenburg is becoming more and more striking. He thinks he can take us in as he did poor Löwenfeld. No, my friend, not a bit of it!
I can warmly recommend the Hamburger Ärzte-Correspondenz for April 3rd.2 In it you will find a magnificent mixture of āā2a arrogance and ignorance, Hamburg respectability and German love of authority. Still, it has certain new features that give it special spice. They say, for instance, that we cannot be called to account because we do not show ourselves at congresses; also that we have made a colossal blunder with our presumptuous attempt to apply insights derived from hysteria to obsessional states (!!) and to Dem. pr., which is caused by modifications in the cerebral cortex (!). Incidentally, you are not even mentioned in connection with Dem. pr., and in general the criticism is leveled at the “Freudians,” perhaps because with them one can still