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(a) German Editions:
1908 Sexual-Probleme, 4 (12) [December], 763-779.
1909 S.K.S.N., 2, 159-174. (1912, 2nd ed.; 1921, 3rd ed.)
1924 G.S., 5, 168-185.
1931 Sexualtheorie und Traumlehre, 43-61.
(b) English Translation:
‘On the Sexual Theories of Children’ 1924 C.P., 2, 59-75. (Tr. D. Bryan.)
The present translation is a modified version of the one published in 1924.
This paper was first published in a later issue of the same periodical as the preceding paper (p. 179). Though it made its appearance so unostentatiously, and though there may be little in it to surprise the modern reader, it in fact launched a quite remarkable quantity of new ideas for the first time on the world. The paradox becomes explicable when we realize that this paper was published some months before the ‘Little Hans’ case history (1909b) (though, as will be seen from footnote 2 on p. 218, that work was probably already in proof) and that the section of the Three Essays (1905d) on ‘The Sexual Researches of Childhood’ (Standard Ed., 7, 194-7) was only added to that work in 1915, eight years after the publication of this paper, of which in fact that section is little more than an abstract. It is true that in an earlier paper on ‘The Sexual Enlightenment of Children’ (1907c), Freud quoted some of the material derived from ‘LittleHans’ (p. 134 f. above)