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Klobenstein am Ritten/Tyrol,
Hotel Post, 20 August 1911
Dear] friend,
Today at last I received the Jahrbuch.1 Of course I haven't had time to read it yet, only to cut the pages and glance at a few of them. I take this occasion to tell you how proud I was to see that you placed me at the head of such significant things and to thank you for the way in which you are championing the cause, holding the flag high, and meting out mighty blows to our opponents (with the flagpole, to stick to the metaphor). I am greatly looking forward to our meeting. This place has a very special kind of beauty. I am planning to stay here until 14 September and then go directly to Zürich.
Since my mental powers revived, I have been working in a field where you will be surprised to meet me.2 I have unearthed strange and uncanny things and will almost feel obliged not to discuss them with you. But you are too shrewd not to guess what I am up to when I add that I am dying to read your “Transformations and Symb. of the Lib.”3
It goes without saying that I should be glad to hear from you, how you all are, how it went in Brussels, and what further plans you have for the holidays.
I am expecting Ferenczi today for a prolonged visit.
With kind regards in friendship from a happy heart,
Yours, FREUD
Vol. III:1, which opened with Freud's “Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning” and the Schreber case, “Psychoanalytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia” (both in SE XII), and included a major work of Jung's (see n. 3 below). For the full contents of the issue, see appendix 2.