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PROF. DR. FREUD
WIEN, IX, BERGGASSE 19
Dietfeldhof1
24 August 1908
Dear Colleague,
I congratulate you on this beginning. Berlin is difficult but important soil, and your efforts to make it cultivable for our purposes deserve every praise. Of the members probably only Juliusburger will be a pure gain, because the others have other guiding complexes, but even if they are only touched by [psychoanalytic] components, it will still be valuable.
I can answer your business queries only partly, as I have nothing to do with the editing of the Jahrbuch, which is entirely in Jung's hands. So please address yourself directly to him; it is possible that you will not get a reply before the middle of September, for he wrote—at the same time as you2—that he had gone on holiday until 8 September to some lonely peak in Säntis; however letters will be forwarded to him. I am thinking of visiting him around 20 September, and you know what I want to reproach him for. Please send the manuscript directly to him as well. He will then probably answer you himself and tell you where he is thinking of inserting your work; I rather think with the Swiss. Hostile publications, thus also Friedländer's, should according to earlier statements be dealt with in a special review; but I do not know of anything more recent.
I know no more than you do about the composition of the first half-volume; but wait—Binswanger's analysis of a case of hysteria, with his uncle's preface,3 will be going in. In any case, I shall let you know from Zurich anything I can find out, so that your communication with Jung can be limited to business matters.
I have already seen Dreams and Myths advertised on the jacket of the new edition of the Studies.4 Nothing more needs to be done, it is Deuticke who decides when it will appear, probably at the beginning of October; he will send the royalties of 60 crowns per sheet directly to you. I hope to bring out the next issue, by Rank, at Christmas.
Your paper on alcoholism will certainly h