Kreuzlingen, 23 April 1928

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Dear Professor Freud,

I am today again sending you some printed material, without doubt the last for some time to come, since I will be fully occupied in the future with the second edition of the General Psychology. Your criticism is always welcome even when it is not flattering, and that is why I was pleased with your last letter; I prefer rebukes, rejection or ridicule from you to the praises of anyone else. You will not hold it against me if I have enough self-confidence to believe that you do not perhaps judge me correctly in every respect!

I met Michaelis in December in Berlin; an unassuming little fellow. I asked him if he had sent you his book but he said that he would not have thought that very tactful. I honestly believe that one can be of two minds on the matter, in all good faith. I have no reason whatsoever to defend him, have no closer links with him, but do think