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(a) German Editions:
1897 Vienna: Deuticke. Pp. 24. (Privately printed.)
1940 Int. Z. Psychoanal. Imago, 25 (1), 69-93. (With the title ‘Bibliographie und Inhaltsangaben der Arbeiten Freuds bis zu den Anfängen der Psychoanalyse’ [‘Bibliography and Abstracts of Freud's Works up to the Beginnings of Psycho-Analysis’].)
1952 G.W., 1, 463-88.
(b) English Translation:
‘Abstracts of the Scientific Writings of Dr. Sigm. Freud (1877-1897)’
This translation, the first into English, is by James Strachey.
Freud had been appointed a Privatdozent at the Vienna University in 1885. (This was a post comparable, not quite accurately, with a Lectureship in an English university.) The next step would be an appointment as ‘Professor Extra-ordinarius’ (roughly equivalent to an Assistant Professor), but there were long delays over this, and it was twelve years later that Freud heard that his name was to be put forward to the Council of the Faculty by two very eminent men, Nothnagel and Krafft-Ebing. This is reported in a letter to Fliess of February 8, 1897 (Freud, 1950a, Letter 58).1 The necessary preliminaries included a ‘Curriculum Vitae’ (Standard Ed., Letter 59 of April 6), and a bibliographical abstract of publications, which is reprinted here. It had been finished before May 16
(Standard Ed., Letter 62), and was evidently in print by May 25 (Standard Ed., Letter 63), when Freud sent a copy of it to Fliess, describing it, in a phrase borrowed from Leporello, as a ‘List of all the beauties, etc.…’ All these preparations were, however, in vain; for though the Council of the Faculty, by a majority vote, recommended the appointment, the higher Ministerial consent was withheld, largely, no doubt, for anti-semitic reasons. It was not for anot