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FREUD, Sigmund.

Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie.

Leipzig and Vienna: Franz Deudicke, 1905.

1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Item #002941

4to (240 x 160 mm). [2], 83 [1] pp. Original printed wrappers, pages untrimmed (minor repair to spine and upper corner, little fraying of wrapper edges, light staining and soiling). Some pages crudely opened with some chipping to margins (well outside text area), else very good internally. Provenance: Monogrammed bookplate "H.M.F." to title verso. ----

Norman F55; Garrison-Morton 4983; Grinstein 79. - FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF FREUD'S FUNDAMENTAL WORKS that heself ranked second in importance only to his Die Traumdeutung. "Freud's epochal theory of infantile sexuality linked the forces motivating the development of body and mind from earliest infancy ... the above work provoked and continues to provoke controversy in both scientific and popular sectors" (Garrison-Morton 4983). "His own self-analysis, particularly, the analysis of his own dreams, gave Freud his first inkling about the Oedipus complex - the child's desire for sexual involvement with the parent of the opposite sex and his sense of rivalry with the parent of the same sex. His conclusions, corroborated by his observations of patients, were published in Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905). His conceptualizations about man's sexual nature became known as the 'libido theory,' which along with his discovery of infantile sexuality were mainly responsible for Freud's rejection by his medical confreres and the public" (Alexander & Selesnick, History of Psychiatry). - Visit our website for additional images and information.

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