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Karlsbad, 25 July 1914
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
101F
Prof. Dr. Freud
Dear Dr. Binswanger,
How extremely comical that you, of all the Zurich people, should have refused me the favour for the sake of which I wrote the history of the psychoanalysis movement!1 And what luck that you should have so little influence in Zurich! I am dying to hear officially that we are rid of the ‘independents’.
There is, of course, nothing against your changing over to another group. And you won't be the only one, I know.
The Congress will debate the continued existence of the International Psychoanalytic Association, for that item has been put on the agenda.2 I think that it will be possible to demonstrate the need for it, and that Jung's defection will pale into insignificance as a mere episode.
Why don't you tell me how you are? Or am I meant to take your silence as an optimum signum? I am very willing to do so, and would like from now on to feel light-heartedly optimistic on this point.
With kind regards to you both, and to your flock of children,
Yours, Freud