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Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
June 5, 1917
Dear Colleague
It is a long time since I received a letter which has pleased and interested me so much; it also tempts me to replace in answering it the normal politeness due to a stranger with analytical candor.
I will do my best: I note that you urge me to confirm to you officially that you are not a psychoanalyst, that you don't belong to the flock of disciples, but that you may be allowed to consider yourself as something apart and independent. I evidently would be doing you a great favor by rejecting you and relegating you to the place where Adler, Jung and others stand. But this I cannot do; I must lay claim to you, must insist that you are an analyst of the first order who has grasped the essence of the matter once for all. The man who has recognized that transference and resistance are the hubs of treatment belongs irrevocably to the “Wild Hunt.”