Freud, S. (1896). Heredity and the Aetiology of the Neuroses.

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Freud, S. (1896). Heredity and the Aetiology of the Neuroses. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume III (1893-1899): Early Psycho-Analytic Publications, 141-156

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Editor's Note to "Heredity and the Aetiology of the Neuroses"

L'hérédité Et L'étiologie Des Néavroses


James Strachey

(a) French Editions:

1896 Rev. neurol., 4 (6), 161-9. (March 30.)

1906 S.K.S.N., 1, 135-48. (1911, 2nd ed.; 1920, 3rd ed.; 1922, 4th ed.)

1925 G.S., 1, 388-403.

1952 G.W., 1, 407-422.

(b) English Translation:

‘Heredity and the Aetiology of the Neuroses’

1924 C.P. 1, 138-154. (Tr. M. Meyer.)

Included (No. XXXVII) in Freud's own collection of abstracts of his early works (1897b). The original is in French. The present translation is a new one by James Strachey.

This paper and the next one, the second on the neuropsychoses of defence (1896), were sent off to their respective publishers on the same day, February 5, 1896, as Freud reported to Fliess in a letter the day after (Freud, 1950a, Letter 40). The French paper was published at the end of March,

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