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1003 Seestrasse, Küsnach-Zürich, 13 November 1910
Dear Professor Freud,
The discussion with Bleuler took place last Friday evening. The first thing he wanted was that I should analyse a dream he had been keeping for me for 5 days. Naturally the analysis had to be staged before the public (to make the exhibition more effective). I humoured him by not mincing any words. He dreamt he was suckling his child himself. Here we have the obvious answer. His wife is still feeding it. So now he's becoming a woman. He still can't decide (consciously) to stop producing children. At last he holds me, his child, to his breast again. He is dying to be analysed and torments himself with delusional ideas: I haven't the time, reject his love, etc. He does not feel in the least homosexual. Consequently, from love of me, he is turning himself into a woman and wants to behave exactly like a woman, to go along with our Society only passively, to be scientifically fecundated since he cannot express himself creatively, is afraid of being violated. So, for the time being, he won't join chiefly because of homosexual resistance. He did ask me, though, whether I would advise him to encourage you to come to Zürich. The whole apparatus that is being set in motion to win him over gives him enormous pleasure, so he would be frightfully offended if the negotiations were broken off. You may already have heard from him. Riklin and I were very sweet with him. Sometime this week I'll invite him to my place for further softening up. I now have the impression he will join after all, if we are prepared to pay a very high price.
I hope you have received the proofs of Bleuler's paper from Deuticke by now. Fine how he polishes off our opponents. But unfortunately a good deal of it is vague and tortuous, all from lack of personal experience. For instance he still has astonishing difficulties with dream analysis.
All in all, Bleuler has been surprisingly agreeable and obliging. He has not given one reason for