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98F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
18 December 1910
Dear Friend,
I am delighted to have heard from you again, and then something good and promising. The latter refers to your Segantini, which I would particularly like to read during the holidays. But do not rush yourself. I am hardly having a vacation; except for the two days of Christmas, every day is the same for me, and only Sunday a real holiday. Also, I would not be able to have it printed right away, because that is what is now happening to the German translation of Jones's study of Hamlet,1 and after that I have accepted a legal paper (the first) by a talented young Zuricher named Storfer.2 But your Segantini will of course follow as soon as possible after that.
A meeting with Bleuler has been arranged in Munich,3 at any rate so far as I am concerned; I still have no reply from him. He is a strange customer. I am expecting to read his apologia this week in the Jahrbuch.
Our would like to publish a nice contribution from you.
My own work, just finished, has dealt with Schreber's book and has tried, using it as a point of departure, to solve the riddle of paranoia. As you can imagine, I followed the path indicated by your paper on the psycho-sexual differences between hysteria and dementia præcox. When I worked these ideas out in Palermo, I particularly liked the formula that megalomania was the sexual overestimation of the ego. In Vienna I found that you had already said the same thing very trenchantly. I have of course had to plagiarize you very extensively in this paper.4
I think that I am able to clear up the difference between dementia præcox and paranoia also in the stricter sense of the word.
I should be delighted to discuss all these things with you again, but there is no respite from the necessity of earning money.
In America things are going very well. Brill has now translated the Theory of Sexuality too, and Putnam provided a superb introduction.5 That old gentleman is altogether a magnificent acquisitio