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6 November 1910
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
43F
Prof. Dr. Freud
Dear Dr. Binswanger,
Many thanks for your kind invitation. I know that it is sincerely and seriously meant as is everything that comes from you. It looks very doubtful, however, that I shall in any case be going to Zurich. Bleuler's last sphinx-like pronouncement was that he would not be replying to my letter for two weeks because he had first to confer with Jung1 and the tone of his reply might conceivably be modified as a result. That does not sound too promising and we shall probably have no alternative but to make a clean break.
All these personal matters are very unpleasant. I wished I lived closer to Jung so that I could support him in his youthful authority, on which, I believe, a part of our future depends.
Meanwhile I am having problems with my people even in Vienna, which strikes me as being quite uncalled-for. I urgently need my untrammelled energy and enthusiasm for the work. So much wasted effort!
With kind regards to you and your wife,
Yours, Freud