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Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
December 21, 1924
Dear Dr. Groddeck
There is one trait in your character which annoys me and which I would love to influence, although I realize that I wouldn't get very far. I am sorry that you try to erect a wall between yourself and the other lions in the Congress menagerie. It is difficult to practice psychoanalysis in isolation; it is an exquisitely sociable enterprise. It would be so much nicer if we all roared or howled in chorus and in the same rhythm, instead of each one growling to himself in his corner. You know how much store I set by your personal sympathy, but it is time that you transferred some of it to the others. It could only benefit psychoanalysis.
The mention of Ferenczi allows me to guess the reproach of not yet having visited you in your beautiful native place.1 I would love to do so, but please realize my present situation and how difficult traveling is for me at the moment, and perhaps forever.
With cordial greetings to you both
Your
Freud
Baden-Baden.