"In a letter to Arnold Zweig (who lived in Palestine at the time) on May 8, 1932, Freud wrote with rigid rationalism about "the Holy Land": That place, he noted, "has never given rise to anything except sanctified religious insanity, courageous attempts to overcome the outside, visible world, by means of the inner world of hopes that are only wishful thinking." He wondered aloud "what kind of heritage has penetrated our blood and our nerves" from the heritage of the early patriarchs, and in typical fashion, he recognized the part that "belated infantile desires" which remain "unfulfilled" played in his emotions."