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(a) German Editions:
1908 Z- Sexualwiss., 1 (1) [January], 27-34.
1909 S.K.S.N., 2, 138-145. (1912, 2nd ed.; 1921, 3rd ed.)
1924 G.S., 5, 246-254.
(b) English Translations:
‘Hysterical Fancies and their Relation to Bisexuality’ 1909 S.P.H., 194-200. (Tr. A. A. Brill.) (1912, 2nd ed.; 1920, 3rd ed.)
‘Hysterical Phantasies and their Relation to Bisexuality’ 1924 C.P., 2, 51-58. (Tr. D. Bryan.)
The present translation is a revision of the one published in 1924.
This paper was originally intended for Hirschfeld's Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen, but was transferred to a new periodical just started by the same editor. The importance of phantasies as the basis of hysterical symptoms had been first recognized by Freud in about the year 1897, in connection with his self-analysis. But though he communicated his findings privately to Fliess (see, for instance, his letters of July 7 and September 21, 1897: Freud, 1950a, Letters 66 and 69), he had only published them fully a couple of years before the present paper was written. (See Freud, 1906a, Standard Ed., 7, 274-5.) The main part of this paper is a further discussion of the relation between phantasies and symptoms; and, in spite of its title, the subject of bisexuality