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1003 Seestrasse, Küsnach-Zürich, 20 October 1910
Dear Professor Freud,
It is now 4 days since my return1 and I feel it is time to resume our correspondence. The days in Italy were glorious, and fruitful in several respects. I found some very lovely things in the Museo Civico in Verona: you remember the Mithraic sacrifice with the snake biting the bull's fore-foot? The circle is now closed: I found a Priapus stele with a snake biting the god's penis. Priapus is pointing his finger at it with a smile.2 Stockmayer has taken a photograph of it. And various other things of lesser interest.
Since term is starting up again, I am working under high pressure at my mythological studies; in term time there is too much distraction. What I sent you will be completely reworked on the basis of further studies which reached into the most impenetrable obscurities of philosophy.
On my return I found a card from you3 with a note about not receiving the Bulletin.4 I was a little alarmed until I cleared up the