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14 March 1911
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
52F
Prof Dr. Freud
Dear Dr. Binswanger,
So it is true that politics ruin not only one's character but one's taste as well. I have only just realised in what bad taste it is to issue a certificate of good conduct to a scientific author,1 something to which I had previously taken no exception. The explanation is that my essay was intended as a counterbalance to the attacks in Berlin and the long heralded article by Friedländer in Morton Prince's journal,2 that is, it was intended as a means of agitation and not as a scientific contribution at all. That is why I considered it permissible to stress the personal character of the author. Putnam has ordered and received 400 offprints of this lecture of his.
When the empire I founded is orphaned, no one else but Jung must inherit the lot. As you see, my politics follow this aim unremittingly and my attitude to Stekel and Adler fits into the same scheme. Let us hope, then, that you will be spared the option.
On my desk, appreciations alternate with abuse, and good omens with bad. Recently a new continent has reported for the first time. The secretary3 of the neurological section of the Austral [as]ian Medical Congress in Sydney has revealed that he is a subscriber to the Jahrbuch and has asked for an account of ‘my doctrines’ to be read at a session of the Congress, ‘since they are still completely