The Ego and the Id (International Psycho-Analytical Library)

Freud, Sigmund; Riviere, Joan

ISBN 10: 0701201169 / ISBN 13: 9780701201166

Published by Hogarth Press, London

About this Item

Rare hardcover 1957 7th impression published by Hogarth Press in conjunction with Lund Humphries in London. 88 pp. The book is in Very Good condition without a dust jacket. The covers look great. The binding is tight. The interior pages are clean and unmarked. There is a small abrasion to the front flyleaf. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ego and the Id (International Psycho-Analytical Library)
• Publisher: Hogarth Press, London
• ISBN 10: 0701201169
• ISBN 13: 9780701201166
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Riviere, Joan
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

In 1923, in this volume, Freud worked out important implications of the structural theory of mind that he had first set forth three years earlier in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.

The Ego and the Id ranks high among the works of Freud's later years. The heart of his concern is the ego, which he sees battling with three forces: the id, the super-ego, and the outside world.

Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey.

Freud approved the overall editorial plan, specific renderings of key words and phrases, and the addition of valuable notes, from bibliographical and explanatory. Many of the translations were done by Strachey himself; the rest were prepared under his supervision. The result was to place the Standard Edition in a position of unquestioned supremacy over all other existing versions.

About the Author

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is one of the twentieth century's greatest minds and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. His many works include The Ego and the Id; An Outline of Psycho-Analysis; Inhibitions; Symptoms and Anxiety; New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis; Civilization and Its Discontent, and others.

Peter Gay is the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time. He lives in New York City.