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2 May 1911
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
54F
Prof Dr. Freud
Dear Dr. Binswanger,
It grieves me to have to confess that my enjoyment of your detailed letter, received today, was spoilt by my inability to read it. It is true I can guess your complexes, but I cannot work out what your attitude is towards them, just as sometimes happens in analysis.
And so I shall reply as best I can. I know nothing about Stuttgart.1 Jung has not yet written to me. I hope that at least the personal reception was better2 — I had hardly seen anything of J. v. T. this season before he fell ill; since then, a little at a time. I am not responsible for Kauders3 and for whatever mischief he may have caused; I believe he has had him consult all sorts of other people. J. [v. T.] clung on this time for longer than he usually does. Perhaps he now realises that sublimated homosexual friendship won't do for him either. He has had his bosom friend with him for the whole year and naturally he failed once again to cope with his sensuality and its expression by masturbation. Intellectually, he is rapidly going downhill.
I count on seeing you in September, above all at the Congress.4 If you do not turn up, I shall be so put out that I shan't come to see you in Constance. I am not yet sure how much time I shall have to spend in Zurich - probably the week following the Congress.5
In July I am off to Karlsbad and then on to Oberbozen and Ritten [Renon].6 In Karlsbad I hope to put down in writing all sorts of things that are now beginning to take shape, all pointing towards libido theory.7
Kindest regards to you, your wife and your children,
Yours, Freud