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24 November 19231
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
140F
Prof. Dr. Freud
Dear Dr. Binswanger,
My daughter has passed to me for an answer the letter about me she has received from you. Its contents gave me great pleasure. What you say is indeed right. I should be even more pleased if you had maintained your leading position in Switzerland or could have placed your institution more exclusively in the service of analysis. But our relationship is based on firm motives of a different kind and is independent of such objections. So I should be very pleased to see you here again. It is out of the question at the moment, of course. I am convalescing slowly and the treatment I am receiving drains me of all strength.2 But if all goes well, it could well be that what today would be a burden to me will, towards the spring, be a pleasure.
With warm thanks for your offer,
Yours, Freud
Typewritten letter. [Freud bought an Underwood typewriter in about October 1923, but he seems never to have really taken to it. Examples of typewritten letters exist in diminishing number over the years 1924-7, after which there are very few indeed. T.R.]
Cf. the detailed case history in Jones (1953-7), Vol. 3, pp. 497ff. See also Romm (1983).