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332F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
191 January 1918
Shivering with cold!
Dear Friend,
I am very glad you did not take my recent difficulties more seriously. Your equable temperament and indestructible willingness for life stand up well to my alternations between courage and resignation. The resistances against which it was written were probably evident in my letter to Kraus. The handwriting changed at least four times in the two pages. But at least the content was harmless. I have not received an answer this time either, but gladly put up with this if only it helps you.
Your criticism of Pötzl did him great honour, because it was completely honest. He has now become a member, and his reply to respective reproaches is that he has since gone much more deeply into analysis. Also he is soon to go to Prague as successor to Pick2; this too will not be a disadvantage to us.
The Dutch are now getting serious about things. We recently received from them a pile of reviews of Dutch papers and polemical writings,3 and a quite admirably clear and definite rebuttal of Jung's latest product on the psychology of the unconscious processes (1917).4 A new local group is about to be formed in Warsaw.5
Otherwise there is little news. I am reading about Darwinism without any real aim, like someone with plenty of time before him, which may be appropriate in view of the paper shortage. The practice is still very busy, and also even interesting. Successes have been good. One of my sons (Ernst) is at present nearer to you than to me, he may be visiting his sister in Schwerin today. We receive occasional news of the other two, none of it bad. If the war lasts long enough, it will kill everybody off anyway.