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7 December 1913
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
94F
Prof. Dr. Freud
Dear Dr. Binswanger,
I was very glad to have good news of you after so long an interval — good news about your health, your family and your clinic. It is annoying that your work is not progressing, since that means it is in
danger of missing its moment. Were it in existence right now, I would gladly have invited you to contribute it to the new Jahrbuch (July '14).1
In the peace that has now descended we are making a good recovery from the impressions of Munich.2 I shall soon be continuing with the ‘shuffling off’ of the Zurich contingent which I started there, when they gave themselves out as my adherents and continuators. I have now taken over the Jahrbuch and intend to maintain a high level. Abraham and Hitschmann will be the editors.3
The Friedländer farce has come to a grotesque conclusion. He informed me indirectly that he would be sending copies of our correspondence to you and to your esteemed aunt in Bremen. I am curious to know if he actually does so. Anyone hearing of this threat would certainly gain the impression that my two replies were humble billetsdoux. But they consisted of the choicest insults in tersest language! Could he have misunderstood that?
Apart from the spadework needed to prepare for all sorts of later publications, I am engaged on revised editions, and especially on the fourth of the Interpretation of Dreams.4 My family is completely disintegrating. One of my sons is now studying in Munich,5 another6 has become a doctor of law and will probably be going to Berlin, the third7 will leave us for good as an engineer within a year. Then I shall be left with just one daughter,8 the one with whom Häberlin spoke. But they are all a cheerful and hardworking lot.
With many kind regards, especially to your wife,