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85A
Berlin
14 March 1910
Dear Professor,
In return for your last letter, which contained various manifest and latent complaints, I want to give you a sign of life once again. Above all, please accept my sincere thanks for your scientific information. I hope
Nuremberg will be a real pleasure and compensate you for some of the unpleasantness. I am so very sorry that you are still not satisfied with your state of health. If Vienna were not so far away, I should have been glad to do the same as Ferenczi; would you not like to come to N. a day earlier? I should be glad to fit in with that, and we could continue the conversation that was interrupted six months ago in the train. I do not know if my suggestion is convenient for you; I, for my part, should be extraordinarily pleased if you accept it.
The Nuremberg programme is very varied, but the scientific part is not entirely as I would have wished. Incidentally, Juliusburger has also announced a paper. You have probably already heard of the subject in the meantime (on Feuerbach and Freud).1 The foundation of an Association and of a bulletin is very much to my liking.
My course, which this time has only four participants, ends before Easter. I derive much pleasure from it. In neither the first course nor this one has a participant missed one session. My present audience consists of a 60-year-old member of the Board of Health, a senior doctor at the Epileptic Institute in Potsdam, a doctor from a spa in the Schwarzwald, and a colleague from here named Dreyfus, a psychiatrist who is at present assistant to Oppenheim.2 He is on the way to becoming an adherent, does analyses on his own initiative, and is independent enough not to bother about the general resistance in Berlin. I expect the best from him. He cannot come to Nuremberg, because he is going to Paris for study purposes.
The course takes up part of my evenings; in addition, there is the activity as expert witness for the court, which has become remarkably predominant sinc