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112F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
18 May 1911
Dear Friend,
It is true that I received the first copy of your Segantini weeks ago. Opinions of your work in my immediate circle are extremely appreciative,
and I hope that our opponents will also have to speak of it with respect.
I shall be very glad indeed to meet you for an undisturbed private meeting before or after the Congress, and look forward very much to the rare opportunity. You would make things much easier for me if you would prefer the later of the two possible dates for [the Congress in] Weimar; I could then spend the day before with you and afterwards go to Zurich for the inspection I have had in mind for a long time. For highly private family reasons 16 September is a very inconvenient, nearly impossible date for me,1 though I am loath to arrange the date of the Congress according to my personal requirements.
The passage in the Sexual Theory cannot but sound oracular, because no clear idea hides behind it, only a hypothesis. There are ways, unknown in their nature, in which sexual processes exercise an influence on digestion, blood formation, etc. The disturbing influences of sexuality travel by them, and thus probably the conducive and other usable influences normally travel by them too. You see, I can really give you only a paraphrase of the dawning suspicion.
With cordial greetings and many good wishes to your wife and children,
your most faithfully devoted
Freud