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October 11, 1899
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear Wilhelm,
Psychic apparatus ψ Oddly enough, something is at work on Hysteria — clinical the lowest floor. A theory of sexuality may Sexuality. Organic be the immediate successor to the dream book. Today several very strange things occurred to me, which I do not yet properly understand at all. As far as I am concerned, there is no question of deliberation. This method of working moves along by fits and starts. God alone knows the date of the next thrust, unless you have figured out my formula. If more comes along, we shall scarcely be able to avoid discussion and collaboration. Wild things, by the way, some of which I already surmised during the stormy first epoch of productivity.
Again ye come, ye hovering forms.1
According to an earlier calculation of yours, a productive period, 1900-1901 (every seven and a half years), lies ahead of me.
Farewell.
Your
Sigm.
Oscar is beginning to show enthusiasm.
From the Dedication to Goethe's Faust: “Ihr naht Euch wieder, schwankende Gestalten.”