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Kreuzlingen, 25 July 1927
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Dear Professor Freud,
Many thanks! I cannot think what would put me off from coming to see you, certainly not the visit of the gentlemen you mentioned, all of whom I know personally. I shall come between 10 and 13 September, if that suits you. Perhaps your daughter or someone else would have the kindness to send me a postcard to let me know, in due course, where on the Semmering you may be found, and where your visitors usually stay.
I have just returned from Lucerne, where I held a five-day psychological lecture course1 with Bleuler and Häberlin. I was delighted to find that my lectures on dreams were very well received. I hope to send you these lectures in printed form before the end of the year.2 Bleuler was very pleased with the letter you sent him following his article in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung;3 Häberlin is very sorry that he will not be able to come to Vienna this time. I am tremendously looking forward to seeing you, even if only for a short time. I find it impossible to believe that it is 21 years since we first met.
With kind regards,
Yours, [L. Binswanger]
The first meeting of the Stiftung Lucerna (a charitable foundation, its founding benefactor and president the banker Emil Sidler-Brunner, 1844-1928) took place in Lucerne from 18 to 22 July with ‘courses in psychology’. The foundation had set itself the aim of ‘promoting scientific work in the field of psychology and aiding the dissemination of culturally important research results in this area of knowledge […].’ (From the programme of the meeting.) Eugen Bleuler (Zurich) spoke on ‘Affectpsychologie’ [affect psychology], Pierre Buvet (Geneva) on ‘La psychologie et l’école aux États-Unis’ [psychology and the American school], Paul Häberlin (Basle) ‘Zur Charakterkunde’ [on the science of character], and Binswanger on ‘Auffassung und Deutung des Traumes in alter und neuer Zeit’ [Perception and interpretation of dreams in ancient and modern times]; cf. Kamm