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13 April 1932
175B
Dear Professor Freud,
On Thursday, 21st of this month, I am due to deliver a lecture1 in Vienna at the Academic Society for Medical Psychology.2 My daughter, who is studying political economics in Munich, will accompany me. You can imagine how much pleasure it would give me if I could see you once again, bringing my daughter with me. I should be very grateful to you if you could let me have a note at the Hotel Regina on the 20th or 21st saying whether and when I could come to see you on the 22nd or the 23rd. I had always wanted you to meet my eldest son, whom you saw here when he was still a little boy.3 But you would enjoy meeting my daughter, too.
With kind regards, as always,
Yours, [L. Binswanger]
‘Uber Klinik und existenziale Anthropologie. Thema, exemplifiziert an der “Ideen-flucht, Traum und Ermüdungsoptimismus”, [On the clinic and existential anthropology. Topic, exemplified by ‘the Flight of Ideas’, dream and the optimism of fatigue] cf. Larese (1965), p. 28, there with the wrong date of 21 April 1931. Cf. also Binswanger's letter of 7 April 1932 to Oswald Schwarz, B.A. 443/40. Binswanger was invited to give this lecture on 2 September 1931 by the Academic Society for Medical Psychology, which was run by medical students; see B.A. 443/40.
The lecture was originally planned for 10 March 1932, as is shown in the Society's programme for the winter semester 1931/32 held in the B.A. (443/40). There it still says ‘Subject to be advised’.
See the report on Freud's visit to Kreuzlingen in the Appendix, pp. 235.