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30 May 1910, Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
On the 28th something amusing happened.1 I must tell you about it. I was in a good humour because Deuticke had told me he was planning to bring out a third edition of The Interpretation of Dreams next autumn (after one year!) and that the first volume of the Papers on the Theory of the Neuroses was soon to be reprinted. At that point a Hofrat Schottländer of Frankfurt phoned to ask me when he might see me for a talk. I asked him to come at nine for coffee. At nine o'clock a card was brought in. On it I read: Hofrat Fried länder, Hohe Mark bei Frankfurt am Main. I stood there dumbfounded and had the little man shown in. He denied having misstated his name and pointed out that it is very easy to misunderstand over the phone, but he showed rather too little emotion, he didn't seem surprised or indignant enough. I was certain that he had said Schott, but what could I do? So there was our great enemy. I quickly pulled myself together and hit on an excellent tactic. I'll come to that. But first about the man. He had hardly sat down when he began denouncing. First Ferenczi for having said in his paper on introjection2 that all our methods of therapy—electricity, massage, water, etc.—owed their effect purely to suggestion, i.e. transference, when in reality their success in rheumatism etc. was unquestionable. I picked up the Jahrbuch and