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Berlin
14 December 1910
Dear Professor,
Today Eitingon brought me your greetings.1 He did not need to remind me that I owed you a letter. I postponed writing because I wanted to send you my letter in the company of the Segantini. This latter, however, is very resistant to analysis—hence the delay. As I cannot,
after all, send you the manuscript before Christmas, you should at any rate receive some sign of life.
The subject is really unusually difficult but I do believe I have by now solved all that is accessible to solution, and now there remain only the last two chapters to write.
I hear that you will be meeting Bleuler soon, and I am calmly awaiting the result. A pity your journey does not take in Berlin. A great number of questions have accumulated about which I should like to talk with you.
Our group is doing well. Juliusburger and Koerber have familiarized themselves very much with the work. The latter recently contributed some dream analyses that astonished me. Unfortunately we have no young blood. In any case, medical Berlin is taking more and more notice of Ψα, if only in a hostile way. A few stupid criticisms have appeared again in the journals, the most stupid of which is by Näcke.2 The pro literature is growing to uncanny dimensions. Jones has given birth to quintuplets yet again, which he sent me.
As regards scientific matters, I only want to tell you today that I have analysed two cases of so-called cyclothymia3 to quite a large extent, which, together with one other investigated previously, provide very good insight into the character of this illness. Unfortunately, I have only seen all three patients in their depressive states and know of the exalted ones merely from retrospective description. All the same, I believe I have come near to the understanding of the manic flight of ideas.
I have been very satisfied with the practice this last year. In comparison with the previous year, there has been distinct progress. Only the fluctuations are still too grea