Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse [...] - PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE PUBLISHER

Leipzig--Wien--Zurich: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag. 1920. Dritte Durchgesehene Auflage. 8vo. VIII; 553 pp. Inscribed in blue ink on the half title by the publisher for Arthur Schütz (pseud. Erich Ritter von Winkler) (1880-1960), Austrian engineer and writer: "Herrn Ingenieur Arthur Schutz / überreicht vom verlag / 17. Sept. 1920." Brown paper over boards, scattered pencil marks in the margins, small staple holes or indentations through the first [VIII] pages, binding rubbed, spine cover slightly frayed, overall very good.


In the week preceeding the present inscription, Freud and his daughter Anna both attended the International Psychoanalytical Congress at The Hague, at which Freud had delivered a paper entitled "Supplements to the Theory of Dreams."


The "Introduction to Psychoanalysis" is a set of lectures given by Sigmund Freud 1915-17 (published 1916-17), which became the most popular and widely translated of his works. The 28 lectures offered an elementary stock-taking of his views of the unconscious, dreams, and the theory of neuroses at the time of writing, as well as offering some new technical material to the more advanced reader. In his three-part Introductory Lectures, he begins with a discussion of Freudian slips in the first part, moving on to dreams in the second, and tackles neuroses in the third. In his preface to the 1920 American translation, G. Stanley Hall writes: "These twenty-eight lectures to laymen are elementary and almost conversational. Freud sets forth with a frankness almost startling the difficulties and limitations of psychoanalysis, and also describes its main methods and results as only a master and originator of a new school of thought can do. These discourses are at the same time simple and almost confidential, and they trace and sum up the results of thirty years of devoted and painstaking research. While they are not at all controversial, we incidentally see in a clearer light the distinctions between the master and some of his distinguished pupils." Freud himself, typically self-deprecating about the finished work, described it privately as a "coarse work, intended for the multitude". [Peter Gay, Freud (1989) p. 369] (12567)

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