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111A
Berlin
14 May 1911
Dear Professor,
You congratulated me four weeks ago on Segantini's birth, but I did not receive the copies until a few days ago; you will meanwhile have received one. Many thanks for the proofs. Unfortunately, I have not yet found the time to read the two papers at leisure, but even a cursory reading has given me particular pleasure. The postulation of the two principles1 is unusually illuminating and helpful; it seems indispensable to me for the understanding of the development of the libido. I should like to go into it in greater detail once I have read the paper again.
You have succeeded wonderfully well in the Schreber analysis and in further developing the theory of paranoia. There is a great deal in this paper that I would like to discuss with you in greater detail. Could you possibly reserve some time for me in the autumn just before or after the Congress? So much has accumulated that is difficult to discuss in letters.—I must thank you for the incidental profit of pleasure I have gained from several of your comments!
For a short time I have been treating the lady—Frl. Eibenschütz—whom you so very kindly referred to me. Her strange fear of speaking has a very interesting aetiology. After my return from the short Easter holidays the practice has increased again very rapidly; analyses keep me busy from morning to evening.
If your time permits, I should like to ask you to comment briefly on a passage in the Three Essays, namely on the last paragraph of the 2nd essay (“The same pathways” etc.).2 I was questioned about it a short while ago but was unable to give a satisfactory reply.
With cordial greetings from house to house,
your devoted
Karl Abraham