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(1925). The International Psycho-Analytical Library, 89:154-155

Letter from Freud to Lou Andreas-Salomé, May 10, 1925

Sigmund Freud

10 May 1925
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19

Dearest Lou

Sunday afternoon and quiet! This morning with the help of Anna and the typewriter I dealt with my correspondence, which had accumulated as a result of my inveterate negligence, and now I can thank you and have a talk with you.

First of all let me thank your dear old man for the kind lines he wrote to me, a stranger. May he keep going as long as he himself wants to!

As for me, I no longer want to ardently enough. A crust of indifference is slowly creeping up around me; a fact I state without complaining. It is a natural development, a way of beginning to grow inorganic. The ‘detachment of old age’, I think it is called. It must be connected with a decisive turn in the relationship of the two instincts postulated by me. The change taking place is perhaps not very noticeable; everything is as interesting as it was before, neither are the ingredients very different; but some kind of resonance is lacking; unmusical a

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