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96F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
24 October 1910
Dear Friend,
You have made up for the long interval by an unusually substantial letter. Cheers to the new home! How is your son thriving?
I am sorry for Opp.[enheim], a good inept man. Why does he have to fixate himself on anxiety, of all things, just to make a fool of himself in the eyes of a later generation. Ψα really has many other points on which it is assailable. I am keeping secret your explanations about his personal motives. I do not really believe in these conversions; Aschaffenburg, however, would certainly do me a great personal favour if he were to give some meaning in retrospect to his “promise/slip of the tongue” at the Amsterdam Congress.1 Friedländer is a mendacious dog, who is not worth talking about. Perhaps Raimann will really get a rap over the knuckles before long; but perhaps I shall feel that it is not worth the trouble.
Now to Bleuler. I had decided to get in touch with him (“to make nerve-contact2 with him”) even before your letter, and since then I have