Letter from Freud to Ludwig Binswanger, January 1, 1911

1 January 1911
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19

47F

Prof Dr. Freud

Dear Dr. Binswanger,

First of all my warmest good wishes on this calendrical occasion to you, your little family and to the undertaking that now rests in your hands.1 Continue to persevere with us and remain in the foremost ranks of those physicians who do not allow themselves to be deterred by opposition from paving the way for psychoanalysis in medical practice.

You are certainly entitled to know how the meeting with Bleuler2 turned out. I must tell you that it was favourable beyond expectation. After his apologia for my psychoanalysis,3 I could not but be frank and friendly with him, and he did not make that difficult for me. We have disposed of all sorts of misunderstandings and have drawn quite close to each other. In the end I did not speak directly of the Association, but he expressed himself in such a way that it would have