On Metapsychology: The Theory of Psychoanalysis Beyond the Pleasure Principle, The Ego and the Id, and Other Works

Authors
Sigmund Freud
Contributors
James Strachey (translator) 
Angela Richards (editor) 
Alan Spain (cover designer) 
Subseries
The Pelican Freud Library
Publication Date:
1984
Country
United Kingdom
Format
B Format
Pages
496pp
Printer
Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd

Printing History

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Beyond the Pleasure Principle, The Ego and the Id and other works

Present English translations first published in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud by the Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, London, as follows:

‘Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning’, ‘A Note on the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis’, Volume XII (1958); ‘On Narcissism: An Intro- duction’ ‘Papers on Metapsychology’ (comprising ‘Instincts and their Vicissi- tudes’, ‘Repression’, ‘The Unconscious’, ‘A Metapsychological Supplement to the Theory of Dreams’ ‘Mourning and Melancholia’), Volume XIV (1957); Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Volume XVIII (1955); The Ego and the Id, ‘The. Economic Problem of Masochism’, ‘A Note upon the “Mystic Writing-Pad”’, ‘Negation’ Volume XIX (1961); ‘A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis’, Volume XXII (1964); ‘Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defence, Volume XXIII (1964).                                            

‘Sigmund Freud: A Sketch of His Life and Ideas’ first published in Two Short Accounts of Psycho-Analysis in Pelican Books 1962

This collection, On Metapsychology, first published in Pelican Books 1984

Translation and Editorial Matter copyright © the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1964

Additional Editorial Matter copyright © the estate of Angela Richards, 1984 All rights reserved __
Made and printed in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd, Aylesbury, Bucks

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