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As anyone who has attempted to do so already knows, translating German, particularly scientific or scholarly German, is a difficult and thankless task, largely because such German prose relies greatly upon the adjectival use of verbs, which in English can only be replaced by subordinate clauses. Moreover, such prose is much more “verb oriented” than its English equivalent. Anyone who is not fortunate enough to be able to read Freud in the original German should keep this fact in mind when reading an English translation of his works. In my translation, I have tried to adhere as closely as possible to the syntax of the German original. However, when doing so would produce unintelligible or even just awkward and clumsy English, I have felt free to resort to paraphrase. Anything that is enclosed in brackets, […], has been written by me. I hope that you will find this article to be interesting and informative, and that reading it will prove to be an enjoyable experience! If such does indeed prove to be the case, I will feel that my efforts to translate have been well rewarded!! One final comment before “relinquishing the stage.” For a variety of reasons that I will not bore the reader with, I have chosen to translate the author's quotations from the German