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Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
January 13, 1924
Dear Dr. Stekel
I acknowledge receipt of your letter of December 31, 1923, and thank you for your good wishes regarding the improvement of my health. But I cannot refrain from contradicting you on a few important points.
You are mistaken if you think that I hate or have hated you. The facts are that after an initial sympathy—perhaps you still remember how our relationship bega—I had reason for many years to be annoyed with you while at the same time having to defend you against the aversion of everyone around me, and that I broke with you after you had deceived me on a certain occasion1 in the most heinous manner. (You never mentioned this occasion—Zentralblatt—in your letters.) I lost confidence in you at that time and since then you have not provided me with any experience that could help me to regain it.
I also contradict your often repeated assertion that you were rejected by me on account of scientific differences. This sounds