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1003 Seestrasse, Küsnach-Zürich,
27 April 1912
Dear Professor Freud,
It was good of you to have your letter waiting for me on my return. I spent some very pleasant days in Florence, Pisa, and Genoa and now feel quite rested.1
With regard to Bleuler, even if the story of his appointment is true it is unlikely that he will go to Breslau. This will be a hard dilemma for him, as he had always hoped to get to Germany. I shall be glad if he stays on, because no successor would be any better, except possibly Dr. Ris in Rheinau.1a I myself am out of the running, for I have no intention of giving up my scientific work for the sake of a professorship. Professorships here mean the end of one scientific development. You cannot be an official in a madhouse and a scientist at the same time. I shall make my own way without a professorship.
Morton Prince is just a mudslinger. Nothing can be done directly, since one cannot start a fight with American newspapers. All they are interested in is sensationalism, bribery, and corruption. But in my American lectures I can slip in a parenthetical remark that will make our position clear. Anyway Prince has already been out-trumped by Dr. Allen Starr,2 as you will see from the enclosed cutting. About this there is even less to be done. Our only available weapon is moral annihilation. But these wretches annihilate themselves as soon as they open their mouths. We are therefore left defenceless.
Our ultimate opponents will be the ones who commit the vilest atrocities with ΨA, as they are even now doing with all the means at their disposal. It's a poor lookout for ΨA in the hands of these crooks and fools!
I hope to see Baron Winterstein at my place next Monday.