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104F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
23 February 1911
Dear Friend,
Your Segantini is fine and beautiful, it goes deep without causing offence, and is probably also discreet. I was very much struck by the similarities of character with Leonardo (anarchism due to an absence of paternal authority, fixation on the mother, influence of the chance events of childhood, but different results because of the death of the mother, jealousy of the brother). On a second reading I shall of course get even greater pleasure from it. The manuscript is now with Deuticke, with whom you should get in touch in order to arrange the matter of the two illustrations, which have naturally been accepted without any difficulty. Your work is being printed at the same time as a legal article by a young Swiss named Storfer, which will be ready before yours because it is shorter.
Things are on the move in the Society here; there have been agitated discussions about Adlerian theories. Adler and Stekel have resigned, and I shall probably have to take over the presidency.1 Putnam2 will certainly have given you pleasure too. In due course I shall be sending