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24 January 1911
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Dear Professor Freud,
I have not yet thanked you for your last letter and for the two offprints, and must also express my belated regrets at your son's mishap.1 I am delighted to see from your letter to Frau G. that a steady recovery is being made. I had a similar experience with my family on New Year's Day when my youngest brother2 went out in a sleigh and sustained a femoral fracture which is now healing well.
When you, dear Professor, encouraged me to help introduce psychoanalysis into medical practice, you hit upon what is closest to my character and professional interests. I do not yet feel up to engaging in theoretical discussions; in any case my feeling is that I must first accumulate a great deal of personal experience. However, you know full well that I am delighted to give whatever help I can. I have now drafted a circular to medical practitioners in which I mention the change in our administration, and that Strohmayer has joined us, etc., and explain my attitude to analysis in brief, specific terms3. I did so the more readily as most other clinics take a most deplorable stand on this issue. Your paper on wild analysis4 gave me great pleasure. I feel some sympathy for the work on the Jahrbuch5 […]6 also makes a splendid impression; my father was still looking forward to Bleuler's contribution7 with the keenest interest.
And so Bleuler was admitted to membership at the last meeting.8 I am thinking of offering him the chair, not because I am unhappy to continue in the circumstances but because it is probably his due.9 As for Adler, I had a long talk with Jung about him last time.10 I share your views and Jung's unreservedly. What I find particularly unattractive is his constant harping on his own discoveries.
I am still somewhat rushed off my feet and that is how it will probably remain until Strohmayer's arrival. I have no real assistance for the treatment of neuroses. A reasonable number of cases takes up a great deal of time, more than I hav