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FREUD, Sigmund. Aus der Geschichte einer infantilen Neurose. Leipzig, Vienna and Zurich: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1924.
8o (244 x 267 mm). Original printed tan wrappers, unopened (spine chipped at ends and with skilfull repairs, slight chipping to fore-edges of wrappers); blue cloth folding case.
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION of Freud's classic study of the patient called the "Wolf Man." PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Freud at top of front cover: "Frau Dr. Lillian D. Powers [sic, for Power]/zur Erinnerung/an ihre Analyse/beim Verf./1925." Freud first published this case history in the fourth of his series of collected papers on the theory of neuroses, Sammlung kleiner Schriften zur Neurosenlehre (1918). It is "the most elaborate and important of his case histories, [and] provided conclusive evidence of the existence of the infantile sexuality by illustrating the uncovering of infantile neuroses through analysis of later adult ones. The patient, a young Russian aristocrat, had been severely neurotic since a bout of gonorrhea at the age of seventeen. During analysis, Freud discovered that his patient had developed a temporary wolf phobia at the age of four after exposure to various sexual incidents, which was then followed by an obsessional neurosis with religious content that lasted until he was ten. Freud used this case as support for his criticisms of Jung and Adler, and it also played a part in his later break with Rank" (Norman F95). Grinstein 113; Jones II, pp. 306-312; Standard edition 1918b; Stanford 42; Norman F107.
8o (244 x 267 mm). Original printed tan wrappers, unopened (spine chipped at ends and with skilfull repairs, slight chipping to fore-edges of wrappers); blue cloth folding case.
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION of Freud's classic study of the patient called the "Wolf Man." PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Freud at top of front cover: "Frau Dr. Lillian D. Powers [sic, for Power]/zur Erinnerung/an ihre Analyse/beim Verf./1925." Freud first published this case history in the fourth of his series of collected papers on the theory of neuroses, Sammlung kleiner Schriften zur Neurosenlehre (1918). It is "the most elaborate and important of his case histories, [and] provided conclusive evidence of the existence of the infantile sexuality by illustrating the uncovering of infantile neuroses through analysis of later adult ones. The patient, a young Russian aristocrat, had been severely neurotic since a bout of gonorrhea at the age of seventeen. During analysis, Freud discovered that his patient had developed a temporary wolf phobia at the age of four after exposure to various sexual incidents, which was then followed by an obsessional neurosis with religious content that lasted until he was ten. Freud used this case as support for his criticisms of Jung and Adler, and it also played a part in his later break with Rank" (Norman F95). Grinstein 113; Jones II, pp. 306-312; Standard edition 1918b; Stanford 42; Norman F107.