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Freud, S. (1925). A Note Upon the ‘Mystic Writing-Pad’. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIX (1923-1925): The Ego and the Id and Other Works, 225-232

A Note Upon the ‘Mystic Writing-Pad’

Sigmund Freud

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Editor's Note to "A Note Upon the ‘Mystic Writing-Pad’"

James Strachey

(a) German Editions:

1925 Notiz Über Den ‘Wunderblock’ Int. Z. Psychoanal., 11 (1), 1-5.

1925 Notiz Über Den ‘Wunderblock’ G.S., 6, 415-20.

1931 Notiz Über Den ‘Wunderblock’ Theoretische Schriften, 392-8.

1948 Notiz Über Den ‘Wunderblock’ G.W., 14, 3-8.

(b) English Translation::

‘A Note upon the “Mystic Writing-Pad”’ 1940 Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 21 (4), 469-74. (Tr. James Strachey.)

‘A Note upon the “Mystic Writing-Pad”’ 1950 C.P., 5, 175-80.

The present translation is a slightly corrected reprint of the one published in 1950, with some additional notes.

This paper was probably written in the autumn of 1924, for Freud reported in a letter to Abraham that he was revising it in Nov

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