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(a) German Editions:
1906 S.K.S.N., 1, iii. (1911, 2nd ed.; 1920, 3rd ed.; 1922, 4th ed.)
1925 G.S., 1, 241-2.
The present translation of the preface, by James Strachey, seems to be the first into English.
The volume to which this is the preface was the first of Freud's five collected volumes of shorter papers, of which the others appeared in 1909, 1913, 1918 and 1922. The present volume of the Standard Edition includes the majority of the contents of this first collection. The first of the French papers, however, which compares organic and hysterical paralyses (1893c), has been included in Volume I of the Standard Edition, as belonging almost wholly to the pre-psycho-analytic epoch. Similarly, the last three of its items (the two from the Löwenfeld volumes, 1904a and 1906a, as well as the paper ‘On Psychotherapy’, 1905a), which are of a later date than the rest, will be found in Volume VII of the Standard Edition. Moreover, the ‘Preliminary Communication’ (1893a), which was reprinted in Studies on Hysteria (1895d), is included in Volume II of the Standard Edition and has not been repeated here. Its place is taken, however, by the recently discovered lecture (1893h), which was contemporary with the ‘Preliminary Communication’ and covers the same ground and of which there is a shorthand report corrected by Freud. The present volume further contains two papers which Freud omitted from his collection: the discussion on forgetting (1898b), which was afterwards developed into the first chapter of The Psychopathology of Everyday Life and the paper
on ‘Screen Memories’ (1899a). It also includes the list of abstracts of Freud's earlier works (1897b), which he himself drew up with an eye to his application for a professorship.
In view of the precedence given by Freud among these papers to his obituary of Charcot, it seems appropriate to preface the pres