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4 April 1936
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
181F
Prof. Dr. Freud
Dear Friend,
I had already heard that the Society for Medical Psychology had asked you to deliver an address in Vienna at the celebration of my 80th birthday. I heard it with mixed feelings, but satisfaction at being able to see you again was the strongest component in the mixture. I am plagued enough by old age, but fortunately there is no question of my finding it difficult to receive you in my home.
As for the source of those other, reluctant, feelings, please bear in mind how I dislike on the whole being the object of a ‘celebration’. Nothing of the sort will take place in my immediate circle. The opening of the Vienna Society's new home will be the most fitting substitute as an occasion for ceremony.1 The other arrangements are of no concern to us. And now consider the following: the people from