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21 March 1912, Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
I was very glad to hear that you have a few weeks of rest ahead of you, now that the libido paper is finished. I myself shall probably go to the Adriatic with Ferenczi for the three days of Easter. As you know, I take a rather generous holiday in the summer.
As for Spielrein's paper, I know only the one chapter that she read at the Society.1 She is very bright; there is meaning in everything she says; her destructive drive is not much to my liking, because I believe it is personally conditioned. She seems abnormally ambivalent.
I delivered Bleuler's manuscript at once. The present issue of the Jahrbuch is most imposing, but there is no real clou. Poster's piece is a technical tour de force; it is assuredly sound, but many of the details, though interesting from a theological point of view, are lacking