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1003 Seestrasse, Küsnach-Zürich,
9 January 1912
Dear Professor Freud,
I hope you received my last letter from St. Moritz safely. I have been a niggardly correspondent, having spent a few more days travelling rather breathlessly round Germany visiting various art galleries and improving my education. Today I went back to work.
Bleuler wrote to me that you want to read his manuscript.1 It will go off to you before long. Keep it until the new issue goes to press, then send it direct to Deuticke.
Stekel has announced a paper on “Religious Symbolism in Dreams.”2 I urgently request you to read it beforehand. Since going more deeply into his Language of Dreams I find that Stekel's ways rather horrify me. I have no wish to cause him any undiplomatic difficulties. He will accept corrections more readily from you than from me. His superficiality in scientific matters causes difficulties enough as it is.
The “venerable old master” need fear no resentment on my part, especially when he happens to be right. I don't feel in the least put out, nor do I complain of lack of affection like Ferenczi. In this respect you would have more right to complain about me. As regards the counter-transference I am merely a little bit “refractory” and indulge in peculiar fantasies by way of experiment. Pfister's standpoint in this