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77F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
23 November 1909
Dear Colleague,
Only the fact that I am forced to use every free minute to put to paper the Worcester lectures1 has made such a bad correspondent of me and caused me so long to delay thanking you for making another appearance with the “Dream States”. Surely we will get them for the Jahrbuch? You are just the man to take as little notice of the general opposition as I did in Vienna at the time, and to find sufficient compensation in our interest alone.
I thank you for your kind reception and your dear wife for her2 hospitality. You will remember how rushed I was, and that only the train journey gave us the hour of undisturbed discussion for which we had been waiting for so long.3 Our colleague Eitingon will long since have told you the news from our house4 and given you the bad photograph,5 which at least shows how heavy the demands were that America made on me physically.
I am well again now, except for the usual symptoms due to overwork.
The practice was never so busy as in these last two months, but also never so dreary and scientifically sterile; also, the flow of would-be patients that usually enabled me to pass on cases to younger colleagues has so far not materialized.
The appearance of the second half-volume6 is imminent; it is to contain all sorts of things.7 You will also be shortly receiving from me the third edition of the Everyday Life. The second one of the Sexual Theory8 will come next. It will be some time, I think, before a short paper on Leonardo da Vinci9 that so far only Eitingon knows about will enrich the Schriften zur angewandten Seelenkunde. I would like to see your Segantini there. There would then be two advances into biographical writing in our sense.
I am trying to win over to the ψα points of view a young mythologist, also called Oppenheim.10 I have not seen your O., who is staying here at the moment, but actually do not miss him much. I am now giving my lectures in the form of a seminar, and I shall so