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Kreuzlingen, 21 February 1928
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Dear Professor Freud,
I have been meaning to write and wish you a happy New Year since the beginning of January, but kept postponing it because I did not want to do so empty-handed. Now I am having to do just that, because the printing of my last book has been delayed and I cannot keep you waiting any longer for a sign of life. I hope that you received the letter I wrote on my return from Vienna and that the winter has so far been kind to you. The memory of my visit is still most vivid, and I am very glad to have seen you and spoken to you again. From the writings which I now hope to be able to send to you by spring, you will be able to see that you continue to be my starting-point, and I am sure you will not hold it against me that I cannot follow you in every one of your trains of thought. Despite that, or perhaps precisely because of it, I always feel that I am your pupil. My little Dream Book is almost ready for the printer; two lectures1 will appear in March and April. Should you then be inclined to drop me a few lines, I would be very pleased, but I would not be cross if you did not. At present, the clinic is exceedingly busy and I have to devote all my spare time to the second edition of my General Psychology; everything else is being kept at arm's length. All is well with my family, though the youngest2 sometimes worries me because of his marked physical and intellectual resemblance to his dead older brother.3 My eldest4 has now definitely decided in favour of psychiatry.