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FREUD, Sigmund (1856-1939). Die Traumdeutung. Leipzig and Vienna: Karl Prochaska for Franz Deuticke, '1900' [but 1899].
8° (223 x 146mm). Line diagrams in the text. (Very light browning.) Contemporary half pebble-grain black cloth over marbled boards by H. Suter, Zurich, letterpress paper lettering-piece on spine (extremities very lightly rubbed, lettering-piece a little darkened, spine slightly cocked). Provenance: Frank (neat early inscription on title).
FIRST EDITION. 'FREUD'S GREATEST WORK, THE INFLUENCE OF WHICH HAS BEEN FELT FAR BEYOND THE PSYCHIATRIC AND MEDICAL COMMUNITY' (Garrison-Morton). Die Traumdeutung's importance lies in the fact that it 'contains all the basic components of psychoanalytic theory and practice: the erotic nature of dreams, the "Oedipus complex", the libido, and the rest; all related to the background of the "unconscious", later to be called the "sub-conscious" ' (PMM).
Freud's colleague and biographer Ernest Jones recorded that the manuscript of Die Traumdeutung was finished by 11 September 1899; Freud sent a copy to his close associate Wihelm Fleiss which was inscribed with the date 24 October 1899 (cf. Norman F33, Fleiss's copy). According to Jones, the work was 'actually published on November 4, 1899, but the publisher chose to put the date 1900 on the title page' (Sigmund Freud: Life and Work (London: 1956-1957), I, p.395). The first edition was of 600 copies, and as Eimas Heirs notes, the book 'is now quite scarce'.
Initially the work went virtually unnoticed; Jones notes that eighteen months after the work was published, 'no scientific periodical, and only a few others, had mentioned the book. It was simply ignored [...] Seldon has an important book produced no echo whatever. It was ten years later, when Freud's work was coming to be recognized, that a second edition was called for [see following lot]' (Jones op. cit., pp.395-396). However, recognition of Die Traumdeutung's came eventually, and the work's impact over the course of the century was such that it is now generally regarded as 'Unquestionably Freud's greatest single work' (PMM). Eimas Heirs 2176; Garrison-Morton Medical Bibliography (1993) 4980; Grolier Science 32; Norman F33; PMM 389.
8° (223 x 146mm). Line diagrams in the text. (Very light browning.) Contemporary half pebble-grain black cloth over marbled boards by H. Suter, Zurich, letterpress paper lettering-piece on spine (extremities very lightly rubbed, lettering-piece a little darkened, spine slightly cocked). Provenance: Frank (neat early inscription on title).
FIRST EDITION. 'FREUD'S GREATEST WORK, THE INFLUENCE OF WHICH HAS BEEN FELT FAR BEYOND THE PSYCHIATRIC AND MEDICAL COMMUNITY' (Garrison-Morton). Die Traumdeutung's importance lies in the fact that it 'contains all the basic components of psychoanalytic theory and practice: the erotic nature of dreams, the "Oedipus complex", the libido, and the rest; all related to the background of the "unconscious", later to be called the "sub-conscious" ' (PMM).
Freud's colleague and biographer Ernest Jones recorded that the manuscript of Die Traumdeutung was finished by 11 September 1899; Freud sent a copy to his close associate Wihelm Fleiss which was inscribed with the date 24 October 1899 (cf. Norman F33, Fleiss's copy). According to Jones, the work was 'actually published on November 4, 1899, but the publisher chose to put the date 1900 on the title page' (Sigmund Freud: Life and Work (London: 1956-1957), I, p.395). The first edition was of 600 copies, and as Eimas Heirs notes, the book 'is now quite scarce'.
Initially the work went virtually unnoticed; Jones notes that eighteen months after the work was published, 'no scientific periodical, and only a few others, had mentioned the book. It was simply ignored [...] Seldon has an important book produced no echo whatever. It was ten years later, when Freud's work was coming to be recognized, that a second edition was called for [see following lot]' (Jones op. cit., pp.395-396). However, recognition of Die Traumdeutung's came eventually, and the work's impact over the course of the century was such that it is now generally regarded as 'Unquestionably Freud's greatest single work' (PMM). Eimas Heirs 2176; Garrison-Morton Medical Bibliography (1993) 4980; Grolier Science 32; Norman F33; PMM 389.
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