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Vienna, May 18, 1898
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear Wilhelm,
I held off because, encouraged by your kind-hearted comments, I wanted to send you another chapter of the dream book before you leave Berlin. I see, however, that I cannot finish it. To my delight the time has passed quickly. I hear that you are coming in ten days.
I shall change whatever you want and gratefully accept contributions. I am so immensely glad that you are giving me the gift of the Other, a critic and reader — and one of your quality at that. I cannot write entirely without an audience, but do not at all mind writing only for you.
My interest in what you are bringing will surely be aroused once you are here. Left to myself, I am of course immersed solely in the dream [book] and desire nothing better for a while. The most difficult task — the unraveling of the psychic process in dreaming — is still ahead of me and will be tackled only after I have been revived by our congress.
You will not see the children; they are leaving for Aussee on