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Freud, S. (1906). [SEI97a1]Psycho-Analysis and the Establishment of the Facts in Legal Proceedings. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume IX (1906-1908): Jensen's ‘Gradiva’ and Other Works, 97-114

Psycho-Analysis and the Establishment of the Facts in Legal Proceedings (1906)

[SEI97a1]Psycho-Analysis and the Establishment of the Facts in Legal Proceedings

Sigmund Freud

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[SEI97a2]Editor's Note to "Psycho-Analysis and the Establishment of the Facts in Legal Proceedings"

[SEI97a3]Tatbestandsdiagnostik Und Psychoanalyse

James Strachey

[SEI97a4](a) German Editions:

[SEI97a5]1906 Arch. Krim. Anthrop., 26 (1), 1-10.

[SEI97a6]1909 S.K.S.N., 2, 111-21. (1912, 2nd cd.; 1921, 3rd ed.)

[SEI97a7]1924 G.S., 10, 197-209.

[SEI97a8]1941 G.W., 7, 3-15.

[SEI97a9](b) English Translations:

[SEI97a10]‘The Testimony of Witnesses and Psychoanalysis’ 1920 S.P.H., 216-25. (In 3rd ed. only.) (Tr. A. A. Brill.)

[SEI97a11]‘Psycho-Analysis and the Ascertaining of Truth in Courts of Law’ 1924 C.P., 2, 13-24. (Tr. E. B. M. Hcrford.)

[SEI97a12]The present translation, with a changed title, is based on the one published in 1924.

[SEI97a13]This was originally delivered in June 1906 as a lecture, at the request of Professor Löfflcr (Professor of Jurisprudence in Vienna), before his seminar at the University. There is some confusion as to the date of publication. The number of the periodical in which it appeared is stated on its front page to have been issued on ‘December 21, 1907’. This, however, is certainly a misprint for ‘1906’, since the following numbers are dated ‘March 6, 1907’ and ‘April 29, 1907’.

[SEI97a14]The lecture is of some historical interest, since it contains Freud's first published mention of

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