Studies in hysteria / by Joseph Breuer and Sigmund Freud ; authorized translation with an introduction by A.A. Brill.

  • Josef Breuer
Date:
1936
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Credit: Studies in hysteria / by Joseph Breuer and Sigmund Freud ; authorized translation with an introduction by A.A. Brill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Yet, as I prepared the translation, and even after “ The Selected Papers ” had been published, I was again and again annoyed by the visits of this ghost, which always made me feel somewhat guilty. I was wont to allay my pangs of conscience by saying to myself that not all of Freud’s own contributions to the Studien über Hysterie were incorporated into “ The Selected Papers.” As a matter of fact, only 122 pages of the Studien über Hysterie were put into English. The rest of Freud’s cases and Breuer’s clinical and theoretical material, especially his classical case of Anna O., had never been translated into English.1 1 here is no need of entering into what happened after the “ Selected Papers ” appeared in English in 1909. I then devoted all my leisure time to the translation of Freud’s other works,2 and perforce played an active part in the development of the psycho¬ analytic movement. But the old ghost refused to remain buried. Now and then, it came to life and annoyed me with the thought that I had deliberately kept from Breuer the fact that I did not intend to translate any of his works. Moreover, for many years physicians, psychologists and laymen read the Studien über Hysterie, and when they discovered that the greater part of this work had never been translated, they either wrote to Professor Freud, to the publishers, or to me and expressed the wish to translate it. As a matter of fact, this volume is most valuable not only to all students of psycho¬ analysis, but to all those who are interested in the development of psychopathology in general. To the psychoanalyst it is the fons et 1 The need for stressing this statement seems justified by the fact that even serious students of psychoanalysis are under the erroneous impression that this work has already been translated into English. The reader may refer here to the footnote on page 10 of the translation of Dr. Fenichel’s Clinical Psychoanalysis. 2 Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex—1910. New edition. Nervous and Mental Disease Pub. Co., 1936. The Interpretation of Dreams—1912. New translation, 3rd edition, George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., London, and the Macmillan Co., New York, 1933. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. Macmillan Co., New York, and Fisher, Unwin, London, 1914. Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious. Moffat, Yard, New York, 1916. Leonardo da Vinci, Moffat, Yard, New York, 1916. New translation with introduction, Dodd, Mead and Co., New York, 1932. The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement. Monograph Series, Nervous and Mental Disease Pub. Co., 1916. Totem and Taboo. Moffat, Yard Co., New York, 1917. Reflections on War and Death (with Alfred Kuttner). Moffat, Yard, New York, 1918. Psychoanalysis: Exploring the Hidden Mysteries of the Mind. Encyclo¬ pedia Britannica, 1924.