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Vienna, March 10, 1898
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear Wilhelm,
Your sleepiness now explains to me my own simultaneous state. Our protoplasm has worked its way through the same critical period. How nice it would be if this close harmony1 between us were a total one; I would always know how you are and would never expect letters without disappointment.2 I hope your Kück3 has correctly predicted the date on which your Ida can get up; otherwise your Easter trip will be in doubt; I was pleased to see you repeat that it was certain. On the very same day your mother and Marie happened to visit us; but the only one in the family who is flourishing unquestionably is Melanie. I see very little of Oscar (my O.); he seems to sense that he is becoming more and more estranged from me. By now he has no doubt taken the small step that kept him from being a complete philistine.
Ad vocem Kück [as to your vision]: It was no small feat on your part to see the dream book lying finished before you. It has come to a halt again, and meanwhile the problem has deepened and widened. It seems to me that the theory of wish fulfillment has brought only the psychological solution and not the biological — or, rather, metapsychical — one. (I am going to ask you seriously, by the way, whether I may use the name metapsychology for my psychology