Binswanger, L. (1939). Letter from Ludwig Binswanger to Martha and Anna Freud, October 2, 1939.

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Binswanger, L. (1939). Letter from Ludwig Binswanger to Martha and Anna Freud, October 2, 1939. The Sigmund Freud-Ludwig Binswanger Correspondence 1908-1938, 219-220

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Ludwig Binswanger

2 October 1939

191B

[To Martha and Anna Freud]

Dear Frau Professor Freud, Dear Fräulein Anna.

I had to take some time to assimilate the news of the death of your dear husband and father1 before I felt able to write to you, since in losing him it was as if I had lost a close member of my own family. Hence I find it very hard to offer you my condolences like an outsider. I feel very close to you right now, as if I were one of you, like a son or brother. You may gauge the extent of my sympathy, if you will, by the fact that, after the death of your husband and father, I feel even more closely attached to you than before. I have no wish to intrude upon your grief, it is as sacred to me as is the memory of him who has departed.

You know that it was not just his scientific accomplishment and genius that bound me to him, nor his crucial influence on my entire scientific career. Much more decisive was that I was deeply receptive, over the decades, to the greatness and the in

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