PROF. D^R. FREUD
WIEN, IX., BERGGASSE 19.

Febr 5^th 1922

Dear Mrs Blumgart

I thank you for the frank in-
formation about your situat-
ion which enables me to give
you as frank an answer.

I am ready to accept you for
analysis on Oct first for a
pupil’s fee (# 10), your other
plan being impracticable as I
leave town on July first. 
Your view of Leonard B.’s reation
to your case is all wrong, I dare
say.  He pleaded for you in a most 
disinterested way and I am indeed 
giving way to his influence when
I in spite of my own scruples agree
to undertake your analysis.

But there are two points on
which we are still asunder and
which may prove to be serious
obstacles.  I intend only to give
you some hints of them while
L. B who knows my mind will 
talk it out fully with
you.

First, you seem to pursue too
many aims at the same time
(mehrere Hasen zur gelichen
Zeit jagen), which will not
work in our relations,

If you come here for being analyzed
and learning how to practise
analysis on others, that one got
will prove enough for you and
other medical work could
only be granted as far as it
does not interfere with your
main object.

Secondly, it is nearly absurd to
devote a clear cut length of time 
– 4 months as you intend – to a
work which is la produce a
lasting change in your emotion-
al attitude to life and love 
and at the same time to lay
the foundation for you activ-
ity as an analyst.  What you
need is a whole season, 10 months
or so.  If you cannot manage to
do so it is better to resign. Your 
tendency to grasp two different
and contrasting things by the
same grip, may be a reproduction
of your love life but it will
not work nor analysis. You would
come to nothing.  It is a clear
Entweder – Oder for you.

So you see I may consider your
application as an open question
before you have not thought it
over more thoroughly within
yourself and with L. B  after 
his return.
Yours sincerely
Freud