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30 March 1911, Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
I hope you are not annoyed at receiving this letter devoted to business matters before your trip. You must tell me some time who Bergmann is (the old man1 has long been dead), and what he wanted of you.
Bleuler is a nuisance!2 But we have to put up with it. My recent tender remarks have produced no adequate reaction. I have not read Silberer's manuscript, I don't know what is in it, it is probably not as bad as his (Bleuler's) prudishness imagines. I am prepared to read it as well as the questionable Pfister you speak of, as soon as I receive them. What you have written to Bleuler is perfectly all right with me. I am now reading the second proofs of my article for the Jahrbuch.3 I am also doing something for the second number in collaboration with our Oppenheim, a serious classical philologist and a very decent fellow,—a short paper that is to be my first foray into folklore: “On a Certain Variety of Indecent Comic Dream.”4 I only hope that my totally amoral co-director will have no objection. For Australia I had in mind a closer cooperation, but have it your way; I will send you my extract in any case. We are suddenly having lovely spring weather and I am feeling rather lazy. — I see that the promised preface to The Interpretation of Dreams is only being set at the very end. Bergmann wants to publish a second edition of “Dreams” in the Grenzfragen series.5
You have been very kind to the Viennese in your handling of the Congress question. Unfortunately they are a lot of rabble and I shall feel neither horror nor regret if the whole show here collapses one of these days. Nor will I proclaim with Horace: fractus si illabatur orbis, etc.6
Have I blundered for reasons of diplomacy with my aggressive footnote to Putnam's lecture?7 It looks like it. Very well, I shall review