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Freud, S. (1924). The Economic Problem of Masochism. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIX (1923-1925): The Ego and the Id and Other Works, 155-170

The Economic Problem of Masochism

Sigmund Freud

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Editor's Note to "The Economic Problem of Masochism"

James Strachey

(a) German Editions:

1924 Das Ökonomische Problem Des Masochismus Int. Z. Psychoanal., 10 (2), 121-33.

1924 Das Ökonomische Problem Des Masochismus G.S., 5, 374-86.

1926 Das Ökonomische Problem Des Masochismus Psychoanalyse der Neurosen, 147-62.

1931 Das Ökonomische Problem Des Masochismus Neurosenlehre und Technik, 193-207.

1940 Das Ökonomische Problem Des Masochismus G.W., 13, 371-83.

(b) English Translation::

‘The Economic Problem in Masochism’ 1924 C.P., 2, 255-68. (Tr. Joan Riviere.)

The present translation, with a slightly changed title, is based on that of 1924.

This paper was finished before the end of January, 1924 (Jones, 1957, 114).

In this important work Freud gives his fullest account of the puzzling phenomenon of masochism. He had previo

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