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87A
28 April 1910
Dear Professor,
I assume that you returned from Nuremberg feeling completely satisfied. The greatest pleasure for me was the mood in which all participants left the Congress. I travelled back with Eitingon, Hirschfeld, and Koerber, and during the whole of the nine hours' journey we did not stop discussing our impressions for one moment. Tomorrow I shall open the proceedings of our local Society with a introductory talk.
Meanwhile, you have once again given me new cause for gratitude. So far I have only read the first of the five lectures and glanced through the others.1 They come in very handy as an introduction for the many people who have recently become interested. The Americans, however, were the fortunate ones, being able to hear all this in the spoken word.—Moreover, you have my best thanks for recommending me to a patient. I do not yet know whether Herr Strasser is coming here from Budapest; according to his letter, however, that may well be possible.
Psychoanalysis has recently been flourishing in my consulting-room. I have started four new treatments in rapid succession, three of them in a very strange way. One of your former patients—I think his name is Rudolf Foerster2—has introduced analysis here to a small circle of neurotics. From this circle, first a very intelligent young woman arrived, who is getting better very nicely in treatment, and soon she sent her best [female] friend; then some days ago she sent still another friend who once discussed treatment with you in Vienna. His name is Mueller, and he is noticeable for his extreme Germanic blondness. These three are most interesting objects indeed; also, there is one case of actual parent-incest among them.3 From these cases, and from one other that Hirschfeld sent me for analysis, I have had nice results concerning the question of “flight from race”, mixed marriage, etc., which I intend to publish soon.4—Official resistance in Berlin is stronger than ever.
I hope that everything is goi