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8 May 1911
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
55F
Prof Dr. Freud
Dear Dr. Binswanger,
On the contrary! Like all fathers I am weak and blind and therefore proud of such a son, so I am reluctant to reproach him. I am quite certain about your psychoanalytic complex, I just think that if you were to reflect on which side to lay the main emphasis of your conscious preference, you would decide for psychoanalysis rather than the clinical complex, for the latter is so safely secured in the unconscious that it has no need of reinforcement.
I have recently referred several Moors (guess why we call them that in psychoanalytic jargon!1) to Maeder. At the first opportunity I shall try to send you a good case for psychoanalysis, if I can still muster the necessary authority, which I am decidedly losing in Vienna although it is still standing up to all ‘demolitions’ abroad.
If you see Jung, please ask him why he has not written to me since the middle of April. He has probably been fairly busy, anyway.
I am already counting the days to 9 July, when I am expected in Karlsbad. In view of the fact that I reached the age of 55 a few days ago, I ought to be allowed to be tired on occasion, but my complexes tell me that I should not. Complexes can harry and hound one.
v. T. is a stone wrapped in cotton wool, as I may have written to you before. I do not think there will be a happy ending. Moreover his homosexuality is due to receive the scheduled aggravation from the loss of his mother (carcinoma), of which, however, he is not aware and should not be told until the diagnosis has been confirmed.
With regards to you and your family, very cordially,