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[Postmark: St. Gallen] 30 October 19111
Dear Professor Freud,
A few words in haste to apologize for not having answered your last letter. The last 10 days of duty have completely worn me out. Suddenly I was detailed for a mountain exercise at the back of beyond where I was quite out of touch with the rest of humanity. I return to Zürich early tomorrow morning. To my immense surprise I am being replaced by Lieut. Binswanger, S. ΨA.2 He sends greetings. Once I am out of the brutalities of military life I shall write you a sensible letter. One just can't think here.
Many kind regards, JUNG
From Emma Jung
Küsnacht, 30 October [1911]1
Dear Professor Freud,
I don't really know how I am summoning the courage to write you this letter, but am certain it is not from presumption; rather I am following the voice of my unconscious, which I have so often found was right and which I hope will not lead me astray this time.
Since your visit I have been tormented by the idea that your relation with my husband is not altogether as it should be, and since it definitely ought not to be like this I want to try to do whatever is in my power. I do not know whether I am deceiving myself when I think you are somehow not quite in agreement with “Transformations of Libido.” You didn't speak of it at all and yet I think it would do you both so much good if you got down to a thorough discussion of it. Or is it something else? If so, please tell me what, dear Hen Professor; for I cannot bear to see you so resigned and I even believe that your resignation relates not only to your real children (it made a quite special impression on me when you spoke of it) but also to your spiritual sons; otherwise you would have so little need to be resigned.
Please do not take my action as officiousness and do not count me among the women who, you once told me, always spoil your friendships.