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Kreuzlingen (Thurgau), 18 May 1915
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Dear Professor Freud,
Many thanks for your letter concerning Frau Gi. I hope to have further details from you one day in person. At the end of April I went to see her in Zurich for a consultation. She wanted to discuss whether there was any point in her coming here. I told her quite frankly what she could expect here and what she could not. A few days ago she wrote to me saying she could not come for financial (?) reasons. I had told her what you had said about her coming here. She still has a strong transference to you, speaks very well and affectionately of you, and wanted to make sure, above all, that I was still your follower. What she told me of Jung's remarks during his short treatment of her astonished me, particularly as she strikes one as being credible. Frau Gi. still displayed her old safety-first system during my visit. She has been living in a few small rooms in a Zurich hotel since the beginning of the war, and now wants to move to a hotel above the town for the summer.
Many thanks for your two offprints.1 And your remarks on transference-love have my fullest approval. Let us hope you continue to have good news from your son. People in your part of the world will be breathing a sigh of relief about the victory in Galicia. Here we live in the sort of peace you must find it hard to imagine. On Sunday I took my wife and our eldest boy for a marvellous walking tour into the Säntis mountains, and while there nurtured the hope that one day, should you come to Lake Constance, I might be able to show you round the small Appenzell Canton.
With kind regards and many good wishes,
Yours, [L. Binswanger]