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25 February 1913
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
87F
Prof. Dr. Freud
Dear Dr. Binswanger,
I am not going to wait until I have influenza again or until I have finished the work I have started for Scientia,1 but will congratulate you without delay on the birth of your second son2 and on your all enjoying such good health. Soon we shall have finally banished our worry,3 and then we shall also see the completion of your work.4 I have already written the introduction to Pfister's book.5 Not that I am offering to write one for you. No reason for that; after all, my turn did not come until after a long period of incubation.
Your regret that psychoanalysis is in such a shambles now is something I prefer to keep at bay. I believe that you are too much under the sway of Jung and his influence in Zurich. This carries very little weight with me. If, as is very likely, it turns out that Jung is on the wrong track with his innovations, you will soon see how little influence he and Zurich have on the vigorous development of psychoanalysis. The Zurich group has an exaggerated opinion of its own importance for which I am largely to blame myself. Jung has become so completely superfluous to me personally in so short a time that I can scarcely imagine myself back in the old situation. His scientific errors do not compensate for his unpleasant qualities.
I must decline your invitation for Easter with many thanks. I can only spare four days during which I want to fetch my little daughter from Merano.6 Otherwise I am really overworked, but my being ill played little part in that as I did not have to lose even one hour of consultation as a result of it.
Be happy and work hard.
With kindest regards to the heroic lady of the house,
Yours ever,
Freud