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27 March 1913
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
88F
Prof. Dr. Freud
Dear Dr. Binswanger,
Agreed. You and Häberlin will come to see me in April, your stay to include a Sunday. I do not in the least mind which one. I am very much looking forward to the pleasant company.1 One ought to meet from time to time. Letters are no substitute. The return of my Whitsun visit (‘the Kreuzlingen gesture’)2 is a nice idea of yours. How much happier things are with you now, though, than they were then!3
In the meantime, I have experienced so much outwardly and inwardly that you will not find it difficult to account for finding me aged. At times I am sure the core is still good; at others I doubt even that. The distortions of my psychoanalysis do not, of course, leave me unconcerned. I tell myself then that I cannot be held responsible for its future destiny and that the many enemies among its ‘followers’ might yet fail to reduce it ad absurdum altogether.
My wife will unfortunately be away when you come; she has promised to visit our newly-married daughter4 in Hamburg. But my sister-in-law will be our hostess and will express our regret that our hospitality is no match for that of Bellevue and Brun[n]egg (?)
Meanwhile, I send greetings to you and to your whole, now very considerable, family, from,
Yours ever, Freud
P.S. Could you perhaps bring your work along with you? Many thanks for the promised contribution.5 We have become used to expecting nothing from the Swiss for our journal.