Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Viennese Psychoanalyst Herbert Silberer, Member of Sigmund Freud's Circle – ...

Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Viennese Psychoanalyst Herbert Silberer, Member of Sigmund Freud's Circle – Vienna, 1914
A letter handwritten and signed by the Viennese psychoanalyst Herbert Silberer. Vienna, March 19, 1914. German.
The letter is written on the official stationery of St. Annahof in Vienna – a multi-story building in the city center, which was owned by his father, Viktor Silberer; at the time, it's basement housed a theater. The letter is hand-signed by Silberer and stamped.
In his letter, which is presumably addressed to the managers of the theater in St. Annahof, Silberer writes that he is submitting a play titled "Die Weihe" (The Dedication) and that he is expecting their decision on the matter.
Herbert Silberer (1882-1923), a member of the Viennese Psychoanalytic Association (Wiener Psychoanalytische Vereinigung) and a close associate of the fathers of modern psychology - Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, Wilhelm Stekel and Alfred Adler, was born to a bourgeois family in Vienna; the only son of the businessman, journalist, and politician Viktor Silberer, who was a renowned figure in the city in the turn of the 19thcentury.
Silberer was self-taught in psychology and philosophy. In a letter from 19.7.1909 to Carl Gustav Jung, Sigmund Freud wrote: "Silberer is an unknown young man, probably a better-class degenerate; his father is a well-known figure in Vienna, a member of the city council and an 'operator'. But his piece is good and throws light on an aspect of dream work".
Silberer's varied studies deal with the formation of symbols and their meaning, the meaning of dreams as well as mysticism, alchemy, astrology and parapsychology. His major study Problems of Mysticism and its Symbolism (Probleme der Mystik und ihrer Symbolik) was published in 1914. In October 1910, Silberer was accepted as a member of the Viennese Psychoanalytic Association which was founded by Freud in the early 20th century, remaining a member for more than a decade, until 1922. Over the years, and due to dissensions which arose between Freud and his disciples, Jung, Stekel and Adler, the relationship between Freud and Silberer ended. On January 12, 1923, Herbert Silberer committed suicide by hanging himself in the St. Annahof building. Years after his death, Carl Gustav Jung wrote of him: "Herbert Silberer has the merit of being the first to discover the secret threads that lead from alchemy to the psychology of the unconscious".
[1] f, 20.5 cm. Good condition. Fold lines and creases. Minor stains. Long tear, partly reinforced with tape on verso.