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Kurhaus Stoos ob Brunnen
9 August 1912
Dear Professor,
In the time between my last card and today's letter, there fell a rather long bronchial catarrh, which has embellished my holiday. In practice,
however, it made little difference, as it has been raining so hard for the past week that it was impossible to go out of doors in any case. I hope you are having a pleasanter time and that you also get the expected results from the cure.
Now for the question of our meeting! We are leaving here tomorrow for Brunnen, from there on the 17th to Zurich for a day, then to Bremen to my parents, and on the 23rd we shall be back in Berlin. There is quite a great deal of work waiting for me at home, and I cannot really interrupt it again straight away in order to meet you in the Tyrol. Other considerations, too, make it impossible for me.
I should like most of all to go to London with you, but for that too I should need a long enough holiday. So I will count on your return journey through Germany. I should be particularly happy to see you in Berlin. But you should not orientate your plans to mine, if it is inconvenient for you. I could, for example, travel in your direction, meet you in some town, etc. In any case, I shall see to it that I have the necessary time free.
I have heard quite a few things about Zurich in the last few weeks. Details had better be left for discussion when we meet. My prognosis is not too unfavourable. Jung's resistances are reminiscent of Adler's in their motivation but, since we are dealing with a person without a paraphrenic tendency, it might well all change again, just as it did four years ago. Unfortunately, he wavers between the rejecting behaviour of recent times and an uncompromising go-aheadedness. I believe the latter has cost us more than the former. I do not only have Bleuler in mind. I am glad that we are not having a congress just now; I think everything will have smoothed itself out by next year.
The scientific points I hinted at recently a