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397F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
24 July 1921
Bad Gastein
Dear Friend,
You are right, the phantasy stems from me, even though it refers only to an imago, a man of importance, not to father or emperor. But where is it? It is difficult to trace it here, as I do not take all my works with me on my travels. But I think you will find it in the Everyday Life, among the paramnesias, where I try to explain why I call the day-dreamer in Le Nabab1 Mr Jocelyn, though his real name is Joyeuse. If that is not where it is, this hint will be sufficient to guide your or Eitingon's memory to the right place. (Interpretation of Dreams?)2
It will incidentally interest you to hear that a few months ago a young woman student sent me a Hof[f]mann booklet in which such a rescue is described; because of the verbal correspondence it must have been the cryptomnesic source of my Paris phantasy.3 Surely you know these pearls of a high school library? I naturally read and forgot many of these booklets, because whenever one boastfully applied for a serious book, one was always thrown back into one's childhood by one of these Hofmann booklets, which were innumerable.
Here I am enjoying rest and idleness, and send my cordial greetings.
Yours,
Freud
Novel by Alphonse Daudet [1840-1897], whom Freud “more than once met … in Charcot's house” (Freud, 1901b: p. 149).
In The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901b: pp. 149-150), Freud discussed his slip of remembering “Jocelyn” instead of “Joyeuse” (French for Freud) when writing The Interpretation of Dreams (cf. 1900a: pp. 491 and 535).