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Berlin
11 June 1908
Dear Professor Freud,
Your appreciative words gave me great pleasure. I do hope the success with regard to its persuasiveness will bear out your prognosis. I shall put your suggested additions into the proofs. If I should write another contribution for the collection, I may perhaps succeed in adopting a style more to your taste. I am, incidentally, becoming more and
more convinced that a work can be useful to our cause only if the author unreservedly stands behind it. I believe that the reviews in the Jahrbuch should also allow the reviewer's opinion to emerge. I have started on this work. The Three Contributions1 are finished; I am now engaged on The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.2
Yesterday I received an invitation from Moll to collaborate in a new journal. He tells me that you have agreed to contribute.3 I have done likewise and furthermore shall have a discussion with M. on this matter.—It will interest you to know that Oppenheim has sent me a patient for psychoanalysis; true, the patient herself wanted this treatment. But it is remarkable that he did not dissuade her. In general, the practice is going satisfactorily. It is not yet keeping me so busy that I could wish for a holiday, nor that I could afford one. But the beginning is encouraging. I wish you and your esteemed family a very pleasant holiday, even if for the time being you yourself have to be content with the anticipation of it.
I intend to hold a course for doctors in the autumn, and the reviews serve as a kind of preparation for this. Or do you think such a course is too daring a venture here, in partibus infidelium?4
Now, you will certainly be waiting to hear something about the outcome of my affair with Jung. To my sincere regret, I cannot tell you anything, since, after more than a month, I have still not had a reply.
Finally, two more questions. (1.) Who is Alfred Polgar,5 who in his stories in Simplicissimus6 always uses your nomenclature? Dr Graf,7 by any chance? (2.) In t