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Constance, 29 June 1912
69B
Dear Professor Freud,
I was particularly glad to hear that you were able to read my letter without difficulty, for it showed that you had given up some of your resistances against me. I have always found that my wife and other women close to me could make out my handwriting with ease from the very outset. That is why I thought that all that was needed to read my hand was a positive transference. Perhaps this is going a bit too far, and since this letter is going to be fairly long I had best use the typewriter all the same.
While I happen to be on the subject of analysing you, I must also tell you how struck I was, on re-reading The Interpretation of Dreams, by your enormous will to power, or more specifically to dominate people: the fact that you wanted to study law first and that government ministers play an important role in life is probably all part of the same thing. You are a born ruler and the fact that you have diverted this ruling passion into the psychic control of individuals is a particularly successful sublimation. It is not true1 to say, however, that this passion to control mankind is reflected in all your scientific work. How closely the instinct is bound up with your father complex is again easily gathered from The Interpretation of Dreams.
Heller is clearly deserving of your opinion, for the book has not yet turned up. I shall gladly dispense with the thanks, but will permit myself to wonder why it is that you have so great an aversion to expressions of gratitude. I have noticed this on many occasions, inter alia from a remark by Frau G. that you were cross with her on one occasion only: when she thanked you.
I was in Zurich two weeks ago; Jung was very cool towards me. I felt that his talk against analysis by laymen, which he hurled2 at Pfister,3 was a sign of his resistance to you. Although I agreed with him largely on matters of fact, his words nevertheless showed me how changeable he is under the influence of affects. Havin