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1893 Arch. Neurol., 26 (77), 29-43. (July.)
1906 S.K.S.N., 1, 30-44. (1911, 2nd ed.; 1920, 3rd ed.; 1922, 4th ed.)
1925 G.S., 1, 273-89.
‘Some Points in a Comparative Study of Organic and Hysterical Paralyses’
1924 C.P., 1, 42-58. (Tr. M. Meyer.)
Included (No. XXVIII) in Freud's own collection of abstracts of his early works (1897b). The original is in French. The present translation is a new one, with an altered title, by James Strachey.
This paper has a long history behind it, which is related in full by Ernest Jones (1953, 255-7). The subject of the present investigation was apparently suggested by Charcot to Freud, in February 1886, just before his departure from Paris.1 In his ‘Report on my Studies in Paris and Berlin’ (1956a), written in April, 1886, very soon after his return to Vienna, Freud writes that his discussions with Charcot ‘led to my preparing a paper which is to appear in the and is entitled [“A Comparison between Hysterical and Organic Symptomatology”]’. (See p. above.) It thus seems that the paper was
So Freud tells us at the beginning of the present paper and in a footnote to his translation of a volume of 's Leçons du mardi ( Poliklinische Vorträge, 1, 268—Freud, 1892-94) a footnote which, in cidentally, contains a synopsis of the earlier part of this paper (p. 140 above). But in his Autobiographical Study (1925d), Standard Ed., 20, 13-14, he mentions the idea as originating from himself, and this seems to be confirmed by two letters written to his wife from Paris at the time of the event and quoted by Jones (1953, 257).
already written at this early date;1 but, rather more than two years later, in a letter to Fliess dated May 28, 1888, he writes: ‘The first draft