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Title Page of the Standard Edition, Volume XIX

Sigmund Freud · before 1975

Title page of a later English edition collecting Freud's psychological works, including The Ego and the Id.

This is the title page of a later English edition compiling Freud's original psychological writings.

Title page of The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIX (1923-1925), The Ego and the Id and Other Works. Translated by James Strachey, with Anna Freud, Alix Strachey and Alan Tyson. London: The Hogarth Press and The Institute of Psycho-Analysis.
Title page, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol. XIX. London: Hogarth Press and Institute of Psycho-Analysis.

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What it is

This is the title page of Volume XIX of The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, covering writings from 1923-1925 including The Ego and the Id. It was translated by James Strachey, with Anna Freud, Alix Strachey and Alan Tyson, and published by The Hogarth Press and The Institute of Psycho-Analysis in London.

Why it matters

This edition was the major English-language collection of Freud's writings, shaping how English readers encountered his ideas. The involvement of translators including Freud's daughter Anna Freud shows how his work was carried forward after it was first written.

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