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Vienna, 24 November 19211
129B
22 April 1922
Constance, P.O. Box 83
Dear Professor Freud,
Herr Gi. has repeatedly begged me to ask you whether you think his wife could be given psychoanalytic treatment with any hope of success, and where in your opinion the best point of attack would be. Although I still clearly recall your views on the entire case, I would nevertheless like to execute my commission faithfully. I am not quite clear about Herr Gi.'s true motives. I have told him that I should be happy to continue the analytic work with his wife insofar as her condition permits, but that - after you had done what was humanly possible - the main emphasis must now be laid on her education, with which, in fact, we have already made quite appreciable outward progress. Frau Gi. is to stay on for some time; however, a return to Germany for financial reasons, possibly to Muthmann, has been mooted.
I hope to be able to send you my book in June. Last week I took on the slave labour of preparing the index.1 Should you agree that I am trying to reach in a conceptual way the same goal that you have approached so closely along the empirical path, namely laying the