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122A
Berlin
25 February 1912
Dear Professor,
I wish to begin my long-postponed letter with the pleasant news that I am up to my neck in psychoanalyses. Since January the practice has
been overwhelming, never less than ten hours a day. This has also brought about the desired effect that I am independent of Oppenheim's support, for what I receive from him now is no longer worth mentioning. I do owe him a debt of gratitude, but the present state of affairs, with its full independence of action, is far preferable. Recently I had to refuse a few cases because I really could not take on any more; I passed one on to Eitingon who does every now and again treat a patient. The lack of a colleague is gradually making itself felt, and I do not know where to find one. Certainly, work will not go on at this rate right through the whole year, but it would nevertheless be desirable to have someone else with me. You will be interested to know that the Ψα of the young Schönlank (whose father you referred to me in the autumn) has ended and was a great success. The compulsion to doubt, impotence, and everything else neurotic are eliminated. I am also very pleased with the material of patients: almost all of them intelligent people with very individual forms of neurosis, so that the work is never monotonous.
I have very little time for private work. The Egyptian research for progresses only at a snail's pace. I always wonder how you manage to write so much in addition to your practice. Heartfelt thanks for the reprints!
For today, only one theoretical comment: one of my patients who has been in analysis for quite a long time already has recently gone through a hysterical twilight state of several days' duration, during which the patient developed a persecution mania. I succeeded in understanding it, in part during the twilight state and in part afterwards, when the patient had become clear and reasonable. It is rare to have such an opportunity of observing delusion formations in statu