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149A
Berlin
5 January 1913
Dear Professor,
Many thanks for your letter and your good wishes, which I heartily reciprocate.
Kraus asked me just before the New Year to go to see him. In the course of my visit he told me that he has made enquiries about me and that the replies were favourable, and he advised me in any case to submit a Habilitation. He promised to do what he could and asked for a list of my earlier, non-psychoanalytic papers. By this, he has at least shown a friendly interest. His influence within the Faculty is very great, although Bonhoeffer will have the final say in my case. I shall now work on a most innocuous theme. Then I will have to mobilize my old contacts. Bleuler might be able to influence Bonhoeffer favourably; it is also important for me to win over one or two other members of the Faculty. Keibel, my former teacher in Freiburg,1 could give me an effective recommendation to one of the two anatomists; one of them—Waldeyer2—has a great deal of influence. In prehistoric times I did several years of microscopic work under Keibel. In spite of all this, I am not too optimistic about this matter.
Now for the Stekel affair. I would have followed your suggestion if circumstances had not intervened in the meantime, as you will see by the enclosure.3 Yesterday I spoke to Frau Dr Stöcker by telephone about it. In any case, we can be indifferent about Stekel's lecture to the Bund für Mutterschutz on January 6th. Before the conflict in Vienna, Stöcker had already asked Stekel to reserve an evening for a social gathering. Recently Juliusburger dealt privately with Stekel, agreed with him that the lecture would be on the 5th, and saw to it that Stöcker should put the lecture and the social gathering together in one evening. Who is going to grace this scientific evening is still not clear to me. I myself have naturally refused Stöcker's invitation on the grounds that I felt far too repulsed by Stekel's behaviour. At the same time I expressed to her my displeasure