Freud’s Unconscious Presuppositions
Volume I - Freud and Breuer: Studies on Hysteria
Volume II - Clinical Case Studies of Freud
Volume III - Lectures on the Introduction to Psychoanalysis
Volume IV- Brief Outline of Psychoanalysis
Volume V - On Psychoanalysis and other works
Volume VI - On the Psychopathology of Everyday Life and Related Metapsychological Writings
Volume VII - The Interpretation of Dreams with Collected writings on Dreams
Volume VIII - The Unconscious and Related Writings
Volume IX - Civilization and Its Discontents and other writings on Mass Psychology
Volume X Moses and the Monotheistic Religion and other Writings on Religion
Volume XI - "Totem and Taboo" and other writings on Myths, Folklore and Narrative Symbolism
Volume XII - Beyond the Pleasure Principle and other Writings on Morality
Volume XIII - Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality and other writings on Sexuality and Gender
Volume XIV- Why War?: Freud's letter to Einstein and other Writings on War and Death
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Volume I - Freud and Breuer: Studies on Hysteria
Freud's first major publication, his 1895 "Studies on Hysteria" ("Studien über Hysterie") along with his related essay "On the Psychic Mechanism of Hysterical Phenomena" ("über den psychischen Mechanismus hysterischer Phänomene") which summarizes this work. These were originally published separately, and later combined. This work lays the foundation of his life's work in clinical psychotherapy and started his academic career and is considered the first treatise on classical psychoanalysis ever published.
Volume II - Clinical Case Studies of Freud
Freud's clinical studies upon which he built his broader theories into one edition, starting with his earliest works on the origins of Hysteria. His 1895 studies on hysteria are published in a separate volume due to its size, but all works related to his analysis of specific cases he took on as a clinical psychologist are included here. The 9 works are included in this edition are:
Original Titles in German:
1905 Bruchstück einer Hysterie-Analyse
1908 Hysterische Phantasien und ihre Beziehung zur Bisexualität
1909 Allgemeines über den hysterischen Anfall
1909 Bemerkungen über einen Fall von Zwangsneurose
1911 Psychoanalytische Bemerkungen über einen autobiographisch beschriebenen Fall von Paranoia (Dementia paranoides)
1918 Aus der Geschichte einer infantilen Neurose
1931 Über libidinöse Typen
1909 Analyse der Phobie eines fünfjährigen Knaben
1922 Über einige neurotische Mechanismen bei Eifersucht
In English:
1905 Fragment of an analysis of hysteria
1908 Hysterical Fantasies and their Relationship to Bisexuality
1909 General remarks on the hysterical attack
1909 Remarks on a case of obsessive-compulsive neurosis
1911 Psychoanalytic remarks on an autobiographically described case of paranoia (dementia paranoides)
1918 From the history of an infantile neurosis
1931 On libidinous types
1909 Analysis of the phobia of a five-year-old boy
1922 On some neurotic mechanisms in jealousy
Volume III - Lectures on the Introduction to Psychoanalysis
Freud's 1916 Lectures on the Introduction to Psychoanalysis (Vorlesungen zur Einfurgrung in die Psychoanalyse) These lectures contain some of his most important social commentary, including a scathing condemnation of Marxism. He gave these lectures again in 1933, which were printed separately.
Volume IV- Brief Outline of Psychoanalysis
A new 2023 illustrated translation into modern American English from the original German manuscript of Freud's famous 1924 Brief Outline of Psychoanalysis (Kurzer Abriß der Psychoanalyse)
Volume V - On Psychoanalysis and other works
Freud's 1910 On Psychoanalysis and related essays on Psychoanalysis. This edition contains the following works:
1910 On Psychoanalysis (Über Psychoanalyse)
1925 The Resistance to Psychoanalysis (Die Widerstände gegen die Psychoanalyse)
1926 The question of lay analysis (Die Frage der Laienanalyse)
Volume VI - On the Psychopathology of Everyday Life and Related Metapsychological Writings
Freud's 1904 On the psychopathology of everyday life (Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens) followed by the 1905 The Joke and its Relation to the Unconscious (Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewußten). These are two major works concerning his metapsychological concepts, now printed in one unique edition.
Volume VII - The Interpretation of Dreams with Collected writings on Dreams
"The interpretation of dreams, however, is the via regia to the knowledge of the unconscious in the life of the soul."
Freud's famous 1900 The Interpretation of Dreams (Die Traumdeutung) including the three forwards he wrote to different versions of it, followed by 5 other writings exclusively focused on Dreaming and Dream metapsychology. Together, this collection constitutes Freud's major works focused on Dream Analysis printed in one edition:
In German:
1900 Die Traumdeutung
1911 Träume im Folklore
1913 Ein Traum als Beweismittel
1913 Märchenstoffe in Träumen
1922 Traum und Telepathie
In English:
1900 Interpretation of Dreams
1911 Dreams in folklore
1913 A dream as evidence
1913 Fairy Tale Elements in Dreams
1922 Dream and Telepathy
Volume VIII - The Unconscious and Related Writings
Freud's 1915 The Unconscious (Das Unbewußte) followed by the related 1915 writing "Instincts and their Vicissitudes" (Triebe und Triebschicksale), 1917 Mourning and Melancholia and his 1919 The Uncanny (Das Unheimliche), all of which comment on the power of the Unconscious. This edition unifies all of his core works on the nature and function of the Unconscious.
Volume IX - Civilization and Its Discontents and other writings on Mass Psychology
Freud's 1930 "Civilization and its Discontents" (which is sometimes translated as The Discomfort in Culture) followed by his 1921 Mass Psychology and Ego Analysis (Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse). This collection constitutes Freud's major works focused on Ego-formation and cultural movements.
In German:
1930 Das Unbehagen in der Kultur
1921 Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse
In English:
1930 Civilization and its Discontents (literally "The Discomfort in Culture")
1921 Mass Psychology and Ego Analysis
Volume X Moses and the Monotheistic Religion and other Writings on Religion
Freud's 1939 Moses the Man and the Monotheistic Religion, his last published major work, followed by his 1927 The Future of an Illusion (Die Zukunft einer Illusion) and several other major works on religion. This collection constitutes Freud's major works focused on the critique of religion, which was a major conflict between Freud and Carl Jung.
This edition includes a rare and bizarre 1928 Pathography essay on Dostoevsky, whom he thought no one would care about in the future. The works included in this edition are:
In German:
1907 Zwangshandlungen und Religionsübungen
1916 Vergänglichkeit
1927 Die Zukunft einer Illusion
1928 Dostojewski und die Vatertötung
1937 Die endliche und die unendliche Analyse
1939 Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion
In English:
1907 Compulsive Acts and Religious Exercises
1916 Transience (or impermanence)
1927 The Future of an Illusion
1928 Dostoevsky and the Killing of the Father
1937 The finite and the infinite analysis
1939 Moses the Man and the Monotheistic Religion
Volume XI - "Totem and Taboo" and other writings on Myths, Folklore and Narrative Symbolism
Freud's famous 1912 Totem and Taboo, followed by several other works related to symbolic interpretation and cultural myth-making, printed in one edition for the first time.
In German:
1912-13 Totem und Tabu
1913 Das Motiv der Kästchenwahl
1916 Eine Beziehung zwischen einem Symbol und einem Symptom
1916 Mythologische Parallele zu einer plastischen Zwangsvorstellung
1923 Eine Teufelsneurose im siebzehnten Jahrhundert
In English:
1912-13 Totem and Taboo
1913 The Motif of Coffin selection
1916 A relationship between a symbol and a symptom
1916 Mythological Parallel to a Visual Obsession
1923 A devils neurosis in the seventeenth century
Volume XII - Beyond the Pleasure Principle and other Writings on Morality
Freud's 1920 Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Jenseits des Lustprinzips) and related wrings on the antinomy of sexuality and morality. Here, Feuerbach's influence on Freud shines through as his Materialistic Epicureanism meets Hume's English Empiricism. This collection combines 4 major works on Sexual Ethics and MetaPsychological concepts into a single volume, containing:
In German:
1920 Jenseits des Lustprinzips
1906 Meine Ansichten über die Rolle der Sexualität in der Ätiologie der Neurosen
1908 Der Dichter und das Phantasieren
1924 Der Untergang des Ödipuskomplexes
In English:
1920 Beyond the Pleasure Principle
1906 My Views on the Role of Sexuality in the Etiology of the Neuroses
1908 The Poet and Fantasizing
1924 The demise of the Oedipus complex
Volume XIII - Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality and other writings on Sexuality and Gender
Freud's 1905 Three Treatises on Sexual Theory (Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie) and related wrings on the sexuality and gender formation. Here, Feuerbach's influence on Freud shines through as his Epicureanism meets Hume's English Empiricism combined with Materialism. This collection combines 10 major works on the scientific nature of sexuality, gender and psycho-sexual formation into a single volume. His other works on Sexual Ethics and MetaPsychological concepts are printed in a different volume. This edition contains the following works:
In German:
1905 Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie
1925 Einige psychische Folgen des anatomischen Geschlechtsunterschieds
1923 Die infantile Genitalorganisation
1927 Fetischismus
1908 Hysterical fantasies and their relation to bisexuality
In English:
1905 Three Treatises on Sexual Theory
1925 Some psychological consequences of the anatomical sex difference
1923 The infantile genital organization
1927 Fetishism
1924 The Economic Problem of Masochism
XIV- Why War?: Freud's letter to Einstein and other Writings on War and Death
Freud's 1933 "Why War?" letter written to Einstein followed by related works on war and death. This edition contains the following works:
1933 Why War?
1915 Contemporary Notes on War and Death
1933 On a Worldview