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THE STANDARD EDITION OF THE COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD * VOLUME XVII SIGMUND FREUD IN 1916 THE STANDARD EDITION OF THE COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF ' \ SIGMUND FREUD Translated from the German under the General Editorship of JAMESSTRACHEY In Collaboration with ANNA FREUD Assisted by ALIX STRACHEY and ALAN TYSON VOLUME XVII (1917-1919) An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works LONDON THE HO GAR TH PRESS AND THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS PUBLISHED BY THE HOGARTH PRESS LTD LONDON • CLARKE IRWIN & CO LTD TORONTO This Edition first Published in r955 Reprinted r957, r962, r964, r968, r97I, r973, r975, r978 and r98r ISBN O 7012 0067 ~.LOGy 6f ,1J ~\~ 1°153 V, 11 ;r All rights res~i-$eg li"o part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of The Hogarth Press Ltd TRANSLATION AND EDITORIAL MATTER @ THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS AND ANGELA RICHARDS I 955 PRINTED AND BOUND IN GREAT BRITAIN BY BUTLER AND TANNER LTD., FROME CONTENTS VOLUME SEVENTEEN FROM THE HISTORY OF AN INFANTILE NEUROSIS (1918(1914]) I Editor's Note page I Introductory Remarks II General Survey of the Patient's Environment and of the History of the Case 13 III The Seduction and its Immediate Consequences 19 IV The Dream and the Primal Scene 29 V A Few Discussions 48 VI The Obsessional Neurosis 61 VII Anal Erotism and the Castration Complex 72 VIII Material Fresh from the Primal Period-Solution 89 IX Recapitulations and Problems 104 • APPENDIX: List of Freud's Longer Case Histories 123 ON TRANSFORMATIONS OF INSTINCT AS EXEMPLIFIED IN ANAL EROTISM (1917) 125 A DIFFICULTY IN THE PATH OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS (1917) 135 A CHILDHOOD RECOLLECTION FROM DICHTUNG 145 UND WAHRHEIT 0917) LINES OF ADVANGE IN PSYCHO-ANALYTIC THERAPY (1919 [1918]) 157 ON THE TEACHING OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS IN UNIVERSITIES (1919 [1918]) 169 'A CHILD IS BEING BEATEN': A CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF THE ORIGIN OF SEXUAL ,::\:- , PERVERSIONS (1919) 175 v\ < Editor's Note 177 179 'A Child is Being Beaten' ~ OJ - ~ V ~ CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TO PSrCHO-ANALrSIS AND THE WAR NEUROSES (1919) page 205 Appendix: Memorandum on the Electrical Treatment of War Neurotics (1955 [1920]) 211 THE 'UNCANNY' (1919) 217 Appendix: Extract from Daniel Sanders's Worterbuch der Deutschen Sprache 253 PREFACE TO REIK'S RITUAL: PSYCHO-ANALYTIC STUDIES (1919) 257 SHORTER WRITINGS (1919) A Note on Psycho-Analytic Publications and Prizes James] Putnam Victor Tausk 267 BIBLIOGRAPHY AND AUTHOR INDEX 277 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 287 GENERAL INDEX 289 271 273 FROM THE HISTORY OF AN INFANTILE NEUROSIS (1918 [1914]) EDITOR'S NOTE AUS DER GESCHICHTE EINER INFANTILEN NEUROSE (a) GERMAN EnmoNs: 1918 S.K.S.N., 4, 578-717 1922 S.K.S.N., 5, 1-140 1924 Leipzig, Vienna and Zurich: lnternationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag Pp 132 1924 G.S., 8, 439-567 1931 Neurosenlehre und Technik, 37-171 1947 G W., 12, 29-157 (b) ENGLISH TRANSLATION: 'From the History of an Infantile Neurosis' 1925 C.P., 3, 473-605 (Tr A andJ Strachey.) A few changes were introduced into the 1924 German edition, mainly in the matter of dates; and a long footnote was added at the end The present translation is a revision of the one published in 1925 This is the most elaborate and no doubt the most important of all Freud's case histories It was in February, 1910, that the wealthy young Russian who is its subject came to Freud for analysis His first course of treatment, which is the one reported on in this paper, lasted from then until July, 1914, when Freud regarded the case as completed He began writing the case history in October of the same year and finished it in early November He held back its publication, however, for four years No changes of moment, he tells us (p 7n), were made in its final form, but two long passages were inserted The later history of the case, after the conclusion of the first course of treatment, was described by Freud in the footnote which he added in the 1924 edition at the end of the paper (pp 121-2) These dates are derived from Ernest Jones (1955, 312), based upon Freud's correspondence In the footnote below, p 7, he speaks of the winter of 1914-15 EDITOR'S NOTE Some still later information will also be found there, derived partly from material published subsequently by Freud himself and partly from data that have come to light since his death Freud made a number of references to the case of the 'Wolf Man' in works published both before and after the case history itself, and these may be worth enumerating The first public evidence of Freud's interest in the case was a paragraph appearing over his signature in the early autumn of 1912 (,?,bl Psychoanal., 2, 680), and evidently stimulated by the wolf dream which is the central feature of the case history It came out under the rubric 'O:ffener Sprechsaal' ('Open Forum') and ran as follows: 'I should be glad if those ofmy colleagues who are practising analysts would collect and analyse carefully any of their patients' dreams whose interpretation justifies the conclusion that the dreamers had been witnesses of sexual intercourse in their ear!), years A hint is no doubt enough tomakeitobviousthatsuchdreamsarein more than one respect of quite special value Only those dreams can, of course, be regarded as evidential which themselves occurred in childhood and were remembered from that period Freud.' A further paragraph on the subject appeared early in 1913 (Int ,?, Psychoanal., 1, 79): 'Children's Dreams with a Special Significance 'In the Open Forum of the ,?,bl Psychoanal., 2, 680, I requested my colleagues to publish any dreams occurring in childhood "whose interpretation justifies the conclusion that the dreamers had been witnesses of sexual intercourse in their early years" I have now to thank Frau Dr Mira Gincburg (of Breitenau-Schaffhausen) for a first contribution which seems to fulfil the conditions laid down I prefer to postpone a critical consideration of this dream until more comparative material has been collected Freud.' This note was followed by Dr Gincburg's account of the dream in question A similar dream was reported by Hitschmann later in the same year (Int ,?, Psychoanal., 1, 476), but there were no further communications on the subject by Freud During the same summer, however, he published his paper on 'The Occurrence in Dreams of Material from Fairy