Lot #14: Sigmund Freud Collected Papers, 5 volumes, hardcover

1960 publication, 3rd printing, First American Edition. Books in great condition, box a bit worn on the outside. Volume 1: Constitutes the real basis of Psycho-Analysis. All Professor Freud's other work and theories are essentially founded on the clinical investigations of which these papers are the only published record. Volume 2: contains all the other papers written between 1906 and 1924. Many are purely clinical in the narrower sense, such as Hysterical Phantasies, Disposition to Obsessional Neurosis, Case of Homosexuality in a Woman, etc.; others concern matters of wider interest, such as the ascertainment of truth in legal proceedings, the sexual enlightenment of children, children's lying, etc., while the first application of psycho-analysis to the study of character-development will also be found here. Volume 3: "In 1895 and I896 I put forward certain views upon the pathogenesis of hysterical symptoms and upon the mental processes occurring in hysteria. Since that time several years have passed. In now proposing, therefore, to substantiate those views by giving a detailed report of the history of a case and its treatment, I cannot avoid making a few introductory remarks, for the purpose partly of justifying from Various points of view the step 1 am taking, and partly of diminishing the expectations to which it will give rise...." Volume 4: Papers on Metapsychology, on applied Psycho-Analysis Volume 5: Miscellaneous papers 1888-1938 Pickup category timeslot {A}