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106F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
3 March 1911
Dear Friend,
I inform you that I have taken over the leadership of the Vienna group again after Adler's and Stekel's resignation. Adler's behaviour was no longer reconcilable with our Ψα interests, he denies the role of the libido, and traces everything back to aggression. The damaging effects of his works will not take long to make themselves felt.
I ask you once again to make the little scene in Ziehen's clinic available for the Centralblatt. It is too priceless.
You must not think Fliess so crude as to betray any intention in the first hour. Unfortunately he is the opposite, sly or, rather, vicious. You will certainly come across his complex. Do not forget that it was through him that both of us came to understand the secret of paranoia (cf. psychosexual differences).1 What you say about the nature of his work strikes me as remarkably true; I once loved him very much and therefore overlooked a great deal. Above all, beware of his wife.
Stekel's dream book2 appeared a few days ago. There will be a great deal in it to be learned from, a great deal to be missed, and a good deal to be criticized.