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Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
November 23, 1913
Dear Mr. Hall
The few years that have elapsed since my visit to your house and your university1 have not lessened my gratitude for your hospitality. A letter from you represents for me the most welcome reminder of that significant time.
I am glad that your interest in our work has remained undiminished. You probably realize even from afar how much everything is in a state of ferment and transition, and yet the trend toward progress has on the whole been maintained, despite all deviations from the path. I will continue making it my business to send you everything that has been published on our side.
That it is just the question of sexual symbolism to which you take exception does not worry me. You will surely have observed that psychoanalysis creates few new concepts in this field, rather it takes up long-established ideas, makes use of them, and supports them with a great deal of evidence. Possible exaggerations will wear off, but most of it I believe will stand the test of time.
The only unfavorable developments within the psychoanalytical movement concern personal relationships. Jung, with whom I shared my visit to you at that time, is no longer my friend, and our collaboration is approaching complete dissolution. Such changes are regrettable but inevitable.
In the hope that you and Mrs. Hall are enjoying continued good health, I beg to remain
gratefully and sincerely yours
Freud
Clark University, Worcester, Mass., where Freud had given a course of lectures in 1909, and was made a Doctor honoris causa. These lectures were published in German under the title: “šber Psychoanalyse,” Vienna, 1910. (“Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis,” Standard Ed., 11.)