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Freud, S. (1918). Letter from Freud to Ludwig Binswanger, April 21, 1918. The Sigmund Freud-Ludwig Binswanger Correspondence 1908-1938, 142-143

Letter from Freud to Ludwig Binswanger, April 21, 1918

Sigmund Freud

21 April 1918
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19

116F

Prof. Dr. Freud

Dear Dr. Binswanger,

Special thanks for your kind letter at a time that is driving us towards pauperisation and isolation! Congratulations to you and your wife on your new child, whom you call the fourth son.1 Am I mistaken in thinking that you also have a daughter? In which case he would be a son and the fourth child.2

I am very glad to hear that you are so busily engaged in your work,3 and that it is making such good progress. With the impatience of an old man who is no longer quite sure of the length of his days, I should have liked to see your book already completed. But I have always felt such impatience, even in the old days. It is true that recently it has seemed as if German science may be readier now to take to analysis. Perhaps its truth is gradually being recognised, with the exception, of course, of the Oedipus complex, for which a special latency period and the passing of a generation is required.

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