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3 December 1910
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
45F
Prof Dr. Freud
Dear Dr. Binswanger,
Many thanks for your news about the two patients, though they interest me far less than the other matter you report. I do not want to have Frau G., for I cannot prevail against her dubious husband.
My visit to you will indeed have to be postponed. I am going to suggest to Bleuler that we meet in Munich,1 which I prefer to dreary Innsbruck and (a secret!), once he has left, it is likely that someone else2 from Zurich will be arriving. But he is not to know about that. I am pleased as Punch about this little intrigue.
I notice that fate is taking its course and passing control of the clinic into your hands, but assume that Dr. v. Holst is no longer there. Am I wrong?
I have forwarded your objection to the Zentralblatt. Sloppiness, of course, the title page was made ready before you had given your consent. The second issue, too, ought to interest you: it contains Jung, Jones3 and other interesting contributions, apart from a little too much Adler, much as the first had too much Stekel.4 Caution is called for with Adler's papers; the more intelligence he shows, the greater the danger. His exposition renders everything opaque, but I know that it all boils down to replacing the psychological point of view with the biological and to depreciating the sexual instinct. All this is not as it should be.
Putnam5 submitted the second of his lectures in favour of psychoanalysis today;6 resolute and straightforward, full of understanding,