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Berchtesgaden, Haus Schneewinkl
July 20, 1929
Dear Friend
My best thanks for your permission! But I cannot accept it before you have reread your letter of the year 1927 which I enclose herewith. I possess so few letters from you that I do not like the idea of renouncing the return of this, your first one. I am not normally a hunter of relics, so please forgive this weakness.
I was glad to hear that your book will appear before my small effort, which is unlikely to be in print before February or March. But please don't expect from it any evaluation of the “oceanic” feeling; I am experimenting only with an analytical version of it; I am clearing it out of the way, so to speak.
How remote from me are the worlds in which you move! To me mysticism is just as closed a book as music. I cannot imagine reading all the literature which, according to your letter, you have studied. And yet it is easier for you than for us to read the human soul!
With warm wishes for your well-being
Very sincerely yours
Freud