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16 November 1911, Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
(Strictly business.)
I have not yet written the review of Stekel and would be grateful if you could release me from the task or grant me a delay. I am consumed by the new project.
Deuticke is being petty again. What difference does it make whether a contribution is a dissertation or not? If we—especially you—like it, that should be enough. Spielrein's paper certainly belongs in the Jahrbuch and nowhere else.
You are losing nothing by Rank's elevation to the post of editor. When he writes something purely ΨAnalytical, he will always contribute it to the Jahrbuch, and you couldn't have taken his Lohengrin, for instance. Besides, the Jahrbuch, the Zentralblatt and the newborn child must not be three individuals, but three organs of a single biological unit.
Bleuler's article on alcohol is a problem. We can't very well find fault with him for the inaccuracy of Drenkhahn's figures,1 and apart from that he is consistent from his own point of view. Furthermore, this is certainly his most sensitive spot, and neither you nor I have anything to gain by increasing the tension. Ferenczi, on the other hand, says he doesn't mind the criticism. The most I could do would