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Berlin
28 October 1914
Dear Professor,
The proofs you sent showed me that the wheels of science are not completely at a standstill. The paper is very convincing, both as a whole and in all details. However, in the interests of the beginner, I should like to suggest that one paragraph be expanded a little. Page-proof 3, lines 7-121 describe an experience that the initiated immediately understands, while the inexperienced will miss a somewhat fuller explanation.
These technical papers always come in the nick of time. This most recent one gave me some good advice during the last few days in the treatment of a difficult case!
As a rule I work at my practice three or four hours a day. My experience is that at the moment there is only one type of patient who goes into treatment (or, more precisely, who is, for financial reasons, able to): unmarried men with inherited money. This applies to all my patients.
Dr Venez.[iani], about whom you wrote to me, will very soon leave treatment; there is no getting at his narcissism.
and have arrived, as well as the Psychoanalytical Review,2 but I have read only a very little of them.
I hope everything will continue well for your two sons at the front. At the moment the general mood here is very positively expectant. I would like to go on about quite a few things, but that is, as we know, not possible by letter.—I should like to come to Vienna to go through your large manuscript, but I do not know yet whether I shall be able to travel in the foreseeable future. Perhaps between Christmas and the New Year.
Many thanks for news of our friends! Liebermann, who is in the Vosges, asked recently whether he could send you a card, that is, whether you would not find it importunate. I encouraged him; he would certainly be very glad of a few lines from you. I have heard nothing from Eitingon himself for a long time. Yesterday I learned that Stegmann was wounded and a prisoner of war in France, as has already happened to a number of d