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157F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
13 May 1913
Dear Friend,
The totem job is finished,1 apart from corrections and supplements from the literature. It is to go to the printer's on 13 June,2 and I shall then send you the galleys as soon as I have them. It is to appear before the Congress, in the August issue of , and will serve to neatly eliminate anything Aryan-religious. Because that will be the consequence.
I am very much in agreement with your proposed lecture and with your economic reforms. Your Habilitation seems to me particularly important at this moment; now that we must reckon with the breaking away of Zurich and Munich, a school in Berlin would be the only proper compensation.
For all its ambivalence,3 Bleuler's concoction clearly shows the regressive trend. Indeed he accepts far less than he did two years ago. He also used to add the modest flourish that, when he contradicted me, subsequently he so often found that I was right, that etc….
Our summer plans: 14 July to 10 (or 12) August—Marienbad, then, until the Congress, S. Martino di Castrozza in South Tyrol. Was the latter region not on your programme as well?
I have learned with great satisfaction that you are corresponding with Rank about our affairs. Politically I am paralysed and see all salvation for Ψα as we understand it in the unity of the four or five men who are closest to me, among whom you seem to count yourself.4
Cordial greetings to you and your dear wife,
from your faithfully devoted