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ZBK 52:507 (1924)

Letter from Sigmund Freud to Karl Abraham, June 4, 1924

Author: Sigmund Freud

Abstract

448F

Vienna, Berggasse 191
4 June 1924

Dear Friend,

It was very opportune for me that you produced such appreciative words for Waldhaus Flims. We booked there yesterday and want to arrive on 8 July. This time I am also taking with me a well-capitalized negro2 who will certainly not bother me more than that one hour in the day.

Being so near the Engadine, I count with certainty on seeing you and your family. You write that you hope to arrive in Sils-Maria on 20 June. If this were to be a slip of the pen, it would at least not be difficult to explain.

For good Casimiro the news that I am at least beginning to feel stronger and to be content with my defects. Perhaps my unsociability is also subsiding.

Cordially yours,

Freud

Notes

Ernst Falzeder

Typewritten.
When Freud began to practise, “[t]he consultation hour was at noon, and for some time patients were referred to as ‘negroes.’ This strange appellation came from a cartoon in the Fliegende Blätter depicting a yawning lion muttering ‘Twelve o'clock and no negro’” (Jones, 1953: p. 151).