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October 4, 1892
IX., Berggasse 19
Dearest friend,
Herewith the first proofs of your reflex neuroses.1 Since it is being printed in Teschen, it might be better for you to get in touch with the printer yourself. I have merely glanced at it here and there and only hope that at some point you will send me the introduction, which for me is the most interesting part.
I almost want to apologize for disturbing your blissful peace (after the patient's departure). Enjoy yourself. I would like to hear only that you and Ida are in good health.
My little ones have been in Vienna for the past eight days, busily engaged in growing; I am writing infantile paralysis part 2, yet another part 2 si parva licet,2 and so forth.
Cordial greetings from house to house.
I may now write
Your Sigm. Freud3
Fliess, Neue Beiträge zur Klinik und Therapie der nasalen Reflexneurosen. The work was reviewed in the Münchener medizinische Wochenschrift in 1894.
Freud means that it would be hubris to compare his part 2 to Goethe's Faust, part 2. The same Latin phrase, si parva licet componere magnis (if one dares to compare the small with the great), appears in Freud's letter of October 14, 1900. It is a quotation from Virgil, Georgica, 4: 176.