Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
December 26, 1922

Dear Friend

I have received the drawing which is supposed to represent your head. It is horrible.

I know what [an] excellent person you are, and I am all the more shocked that such a trifling flaw in your character as your tolerance or sympathy for modern “art” has to be so cruelly punished. I learn from Lampl that the artist declares that this is how he sees you! People like him should be the last to have access to analytical circles, for they are the all-too-undesirable illustration of Adler's theory that it is just the people with serious congenital defects of vision who become painters and draughtsmen.

Allow me to forget this portrait while wishing you and your dear family everything good and pleasant for 1923.

Cordially yours
Freud