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302F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
26 September 1916
Dear Friend,
It was impossible, I returned to Vienna on 16 September, and have given up the rest of the travelling season for this year. It was impossible, for various reasons, to be discussed in person. In addition, Ferenczi had announced a visit for the middle of this month to work on his analysis;1 however, he was prevented and is still not here today. Rank was here until yesterday evening on his return journey from Constantinople, where he had spent his leave, and was utterly enchanted by the Orient.2 Otherwise many of our members have been transferred, Tausk is ill, etc. We shall be a very small circle when we open in October, and then we shall only see each other occasionally.
Naturally we are keeping the journals to the last possible moment. The printing of the second instalment of the Lectures is now going ahead fast. Today I have had from Berlin an idiotic essay by Placzek on friendship3 and a piece of prattle by Eulenburg on morality and sexuality.4 So much for science.
We have had our two boys on leave in Salzburg at the same time, as you know. Since then they have both been in the South Tyrol region, and occasionally send us good news. My son-in-law drags himself around, he is not being discharged and is being given no other duties. His traumatic neurosis appears to be flourishing. He is recognized as no longer fit for field service.