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April 6, 1897
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear Wilhelm,
Your interpretation of your dream is not that easy [to follow], but the dream should be right. I prefer Nuremberg to Prague, and would prefer even more to associate Venice with your periods if Venice were a city where one could take walks. However, since our congress will have a spring sequel for you — in which I cannot participate because now each day costs me 75 to 90 florins and the days are of no value in September — you should arrange things so that our meeting (the location of which is less important) fits in with your other plans, so that Ida can easily follow you, and so that you need not make a detour in continuing your journey. I shall therefore await your instructions on all counts. I can leave Friday evening and stay away until Wednesday morning at the latest.
Mathilde is well; yesterday for the first time there was no albumin. The child has been very good. Martha will perhaps take her along, if the time when she is to get out of bed is not too close to the departure for Aussee.
The point that escaped me in the solution of hysteria lies in the discovery of a different source, from which a new element of the product of the unconscious arises. What I have in mind are hysterical fantasies which regularly, as I see it, go back to things that children overhear at an early age and understand only subsequently. The age at which they take in information of this kind is, strangely enough, from six to seven months on! Brother-in-law Oscar implored