You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
214F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
17 May 1914
Dear Friend,
I am answering you by return, so that I can send you back Riklin's letter. It goes without saying that as long as we are in power we shall never imitate Jung's brutality.
I can consider myself cured of my last attack. If one pauses with production for a few months, it is perhaps not such a misfortune. I am planning to begin the holidays this year on 19 July; the decision as to whether we are going first to Karlsbad will be made on Monday.
There was another very intelligent article by Putnam in defence of sexuality in the interpretation of dreams in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, April—May '14.1 It is just that he has to show such hellish reverence for Adler, which is quite out of place in this context.
It will interest you that we recently discovered that my little one2 translates English poets very beautifully into German verse. As a test I set before her some of Byron's Hebrew Melodies,3 and cannot deny that her version pleased me almost more than that of Gildemeister. It is a very fine little creature.
As far as Reik is concerned, I assume that you have long understood that he must not be allowed to get into real poverty, and if you notice that he does, act quickly on my behalf and debit the cost to me. I had started in Vienna with a regular subsidy when he left, and perhaps that too was a motive for him. For he is noble and decent.
With cordial greetings and please do not worry.
Your faithfully devoted