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20 July 1910
37B
Dear Professor Freud,
Following a short analysis with Maeder today, I am able to comply with your wish that I add my name to the list of contributors to the Zentralblatt. It struck Maeder last night that my refusal must, after all, be based on a resistance, since you wanted to lay claim not to my time but merely to my name. I became conscious of the fact that this resistance was directed against Stekel, about whose lack of scientific spirit Maeder and I are agreed, although Maeder felt free to join despite this. What I myself had repressed in connection with my resistance was the fact that, when all is said and done, you are at the helm and you have assumed co-responsibility, so that we can safely drop our reservations. It was typical that at the time of my first refusal, transmitted through Maeder, I was not even conscious that you yourself were involved, and that Maeder had subsequently almost to force me to read the names of the editorial board on the covers. As you see, the impression I gained at Nuremberg, where you seemed to be keeping aloof, was quite a lasting one. But now that I am reporting officially as a contributor, I would only beg you to bear in mind my very real lack of time; since, however, you seem mainly concerned to add my name, I have, after overcoming my resistance, no cause to keep my distance from an undertaking to which I am wholly sympathetic. I hope, dear Professor, that you will overlook my complexes and that my belated act of frankness has not come too late.
With kind regards and all good wishes for your holiday,
Yours, [L. Binswanger]