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1003 Seestrasse, Küsnach-Zürich,
26 June 1910
Dear Professor Freud,
Today being a Sunday I am using it to go over your critique in peace. I am most grateful to you and quite agree with what you say. I should have warned you beforehand that I am presenting myself in my shirt-sleeves. The piece is only a very rough sketch. The Mithras problem in particular is dealt with in a most inadequate way, in addition to which the copyist left out a key passage on self-sacrifice. It is bound to make a highly unsatisfactory impression as the discussion of the incest problem is also missing. I would be very grateful if I might lay the second part before you sometime in completely revised form. With regard to the sentence, “Sexuality destroys itself,” I would remark that this is an extremely paradoxical formulation which I do not regard as in any way valid or viable. But there is something in it that I must hang on to because, at least for the present, I don't feel