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1 April 1915
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
105F
Prof. Dr. Freud
Dear Dr. Binswanger,
I am delighted by your good news and also by the fact that you still find my articles worthy of praise and of use to you. I have nothing directly bad to report; my son in Galicia1 is well, on the whole, the other son2 is still doing his military training in Klagenfurt, the third3 has even been exempted, but worry and tension are understandably so great that little prevails against them. Fortunately I have roused myself to some modest efforts,4 the results of which you will find in the Zeitschrift and in Imago. I am also preparing something that seems not unimportant, namely a characterisation of the unconscious5 intended to render it intelligible, and also an explanation of melancholia6 based on narcissism. The eight months of the war weigh upon us like a bad dream. My wife and sister-in-law miss the summer holiday they forwent in 1914; I myself cannot boast that I feel refreshed by having my work load reduced to a third. However, we are planning to make up for it all in the summer of 1915 and have been thinking of many nice places, including Lake Constance, in which case I shall be seeking your advice. Still, all such decisions depend on one's fatherland and family permitting, and that is something no one can