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1003 Seestrasse, Küsnach-Zürich,
8 May 1912
Dear Professor Freud,
I very much regret my inability to make myself intelligible at a distance without sending you the voluminous background material.1 What I mean is that the exclusion of the father-daughter relationship from the incest prohibition, usually explained by the role of the father as (egoistic) law-giver, must originate from the relatively late period of patriarchy, when culture was sufficiently far advanced for the formation