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Freud, S. (1898). Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume III (1893-1899): Early Psycho-Analytic Publications, 259-285

Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses

Sigmund Freud

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Editor's Note to "Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses"

Die Sexualität in Der Ätiologie Der Neurosen

James Strachey

(a) German Editions:

1898 Wien. klin. Rdsch., 12 (2), 21-2, (4), 55-7, (5), 70-2, (7), 103-5. (January 9, 23, 30 and February 13.)

1906 S.K.S.N., 1, 181-204. (1911, 2nd ed.; 1920, 3rd ed.; 1922, 4th ed.)

1925 G.S., 1, 439-64.

1952 G.W., 1, 491-516.

(b) English Translation:

‘Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses’

1924 C.P., 1, 220-48. (Tr. J. Bernays.)

The present translation is a modified version of that published in 1924.

This paper was finished, as we learn from a letter to Fliess (Freud, 1950a, Letter 83), on February 9, 1898. It had been begun already a month earlier (Standard Ed., Letter 81), and in both these letters Freud speaks of it contemptuously as a ‘Gartenlaube’ article. This was the ti

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