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125F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
2 May 1912
Dear Friend,
Many thanks for your good news. I was very pleased to hear about the English and Russian translations. Your domestic news was less pleasing, but fortunately does not go beyond what one is prepared for.
is eagerly awaiting your Amenhotep. Will you not want to include a portrait of the interesting king?—On the strength of your recommendation Frau L. A.-Salomé will be very welcome; she is said to have sent Jung a paper for the Jahrbuch which has been promised me for a reading too.1
Kalischer, I thought, for once, was a serious case, and so I hurried with the letter. Is not one always taken in.
is indeed getting a pleasant reception in general; only in Vienna the interest is slight. There are now some innovations in the : Open Forum and “Children's Corner” are going to be activated,2 the former for exchanges of ideas and for internal criticism. Your “Bride of Death Ceremonial”3 is priceless and in many respects overwhelming. It is correct to identify the father with death, for the father is a dead man, and death himself—according to Kleinpaul4—is only a dead man. The dead are universally thought of as coming for their own.
At the Society yesterday we had talks on the last two issues of the , and we are to make our Ψα literature the subject of regular discussions. Your paper on melancholia was very sensibly criticized by Federn,5 and then all sorts of things dawned on me which may lead further. We are still only at the beginnings in that respect.
At home things are going well, but I am rather over-worked, i.e. dimwitted, and the work on taboo is going very badly. The “totem”6 will have to wait for a long time.
With cordial greetings and wishes for the recovery of your wife and children,