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Freud, S. (1938). Some Elementary Lessons in Psycho-Analysis. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XXIII (1937-1939): Moses and Monotheism, An Outline of Psycho-Analysis and Other Works, 279-286

Some Elementary Lessons in Psycho-Analysis

Sigmund Freud

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Editor's Note to "Some Elementary Lessons in Psycho-Analysis"

James Strachey

(a)German Editions:

1940 Some Elementary Lessons in Psycho-Analysis Int. Z. Psychoanal. Imago, 25 (1), 21-2. (In part.)

1941 Some Elementary Lessons in Psycho-Analysis G.W., 17, 141-7. (Complete.)

(b) English Translations:

Some Elementary Lessons in Psycho-Analysis 1940 Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 21 (1), 83-4. (In part.) (Tr. James Strachey.)

Some Elementary Lessons in Psycho-Analysis 1950 C.P., 5, 376-82. (Complete. Same translator.)

The present translation is a revised reprint of that published in 1950. The original part-publications were as a footnote to the first German issue of the Outline of Psycho-Analysis (1940a [1938]) and as an Appendix to the first English translation of that work.

The title of the original is in English. It was written in London, and the manuscript is dated October 20, 1938. But it remained a fragment. The Outline had been

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