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16 December 1912
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
82F
Prof. Dr. Freud
Dear Dr. Binswanger,
I'm sure you possess splendid courage of the kind a man should have. You work and you create1 and you deserve that both your efforts should flourish. You are right to ignore the uncertainty still hanging over you2 just as we frivolous ones ignore our uncertainties.
I am prepared to be declared a candidate for eternity on the strength of my mishap in Munich.3 Stekel wrote the other day that my behaviour already displayed a ‘hipocritical trait’ (sic!). They can all hardly wait for it, but I can give them the same answer as did Mark Twain in similar circumstances: ‘Reports of my death grossly exaggerated.’4
Indeed, I am working - at last - on the third of the ‘Points of Agreement’5 for Imago which is meant to clear the way for the fourth,6 to which I am very much looking forward.
My daughter7 is very well. I have heard from Bleuler. He has even threatened to ask me for special clarifications, which I am quite prepared to give him. He is always suddenly pretending not to understand this or that.
Our journal8 has gone to the printers and will come out in January. With regard to Frau F., I must ask you for a few explanatory lines. Her husband has written to me enclosing two letters from Dr. Haymann9 denying that she is psychotic.10 However, I was quite unable to extract anything concrete from the diplomatic phrases of these letters. I promised the husband a reply after approaching you.
Kind regards to you, your wife and your children. Your son is indeed bearing out our earlier interpretations of his behaviour.