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24 April 1915
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
107F
Prof. Dr. Freud
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
Dear Dr. Binswanger,
By chance I sent you an offprint1 yesterday. I am replying to your letter without delay. I should be very glad to supply you with information about Frau Gi., but what is it you want to know? There is a great deal to say about that patient. She is a case of obsessional neurosis of the severest kind who was nearly analysed to the end, has proved incurable and has resisted all efforts because of particularly unpropitious extreme circumstances and is supposedly still dependent on me. In fact, however, she has been running away from me ever since I let her into the real secret of her illness. Analytically useless to anyone. She is pulling the wool over Pfister's eyes. A need for association, friendship with people whom she knows to be with me, because in the quarrel with Zurich she sided with me and was herself one of the objects of Jung's professional laxity. You are probably meant as a substitute for Pfister.
Her character has been maintained until a short time ago; she has a pleasant, over-considerate, shrewd and distinguished personality. Her demands on household and clinic are absurdly involved, and will not, I believe, be reduced despite the war. For years, she was the leading figure in the Nassau clinic2 (Poensgen,3 Muthmann4): her juvenile tendency to change is becoming more pronounced (Muthmann - Pfister - Binswanger), while her affection is given to a succession of fathers (Poensgen - Freud).5 Strives for friendship and incorporation into a family. I do not know the latest changes but she seems to have altered a great deal during the past year, in which I have hardly seen her. Her husband - the bone of contention - shows enormous patience and