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Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
8 August 1921
Bad Gastein
Dear Friend,
I have nothing to lay my claim on and no objections to make, I fully agree with your deeper interpretation of the rescue phantasy, and I wish only to draw your attention to an awkward feature of the Oedipus passage which has already caused me a great deal of trouble.
You write of a “hollow way” as a place where they met, which is just as suitable to us as a symbol of the genital as for the incident about giving way. L. Frank, who has retold the story of the Ψα patricide in the “Ursache”,1 also makes his hero engage in phantasies about a “hollow way” that he cannot properly remember. But the Greek texts known to me speak of a óψoψ ψ, which means, not “hollow way” but “crossroads”, at which, one would suppose, giving way would not be difficult. Would it not be as well to consult a scholar before you publish?
I cannot decide the date of our congress2 alone. I was thinking of the last week in September, so that I could be in Vienna on the 30th. The question of the beginning should soon be settled. A great deal depends on Jones's arrangements.
My cordial greetings to you and yours,
Yours,
Freud