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September 24, 1900
Dear Wilhelm,
Many thanks for your letter and the clipping; am replying to the latter today. I must, after all, take an interest in reality in sexuality, which one learns about only with great difficulty. Am slowly writing the “Psychology of Everyday Life” (to be in error — madness).1 To my regret, I will even have to ask you to return a letter from Berchtesgaden to me, the one that contains the analysis of a number chosen at random.2 I have fewer objections to the way the theologians go about it than to the indignant introductions of our writers, even by von Krafft-Ebing. Could recommend C. Rieger's Castration to you as a counterpart.3
I am miserable with a sinus cold.
Cordial greetings.
Your
Sigm.
Freud means that the sound of the German Irren (to err) reminds him of Irre (madmen).
See note I to letter of August 27, 1899, where this is referred to.
Conrad Rieger was professor of psychiatry at the University of Würzburg. The book referred to is Die Castration in rechtlicher, socialer und vitaler Hinsicht (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1900). See note 3 to letter of November 2, 1896.