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(a)German Editions:
1910 Über Den Gegensinn Der Urworte Jb. psychoan. psychopath. Forsch., 2 (1), 179-184.
1913 Über Den Gegensinn Der Urworte S.K.S.N., 3, 280-287. (2nd ed. 1921.)
1924 Über Den Gegensinn Der Urworte G.S., 10, 221-228.
1943 Über Den Gegensinn Der Urworte G.W., 8, 214-221.
(b)English Translation:
‘“The Antithetical Sense of Primal Words”’ 1925 C.P., 4, 184-191. (Tr. M. N. Scarl.)
The present translation with a modified title, ‘The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words’, is a new one by Alan Tyson.
We are told by Ernest Jones (1955, 347) that Freud came across Abel's pamphlet in the autumn of 1909. He was particularly pleased by the discovery, as is shown by the many references he made to it in his writings. In 1911, for instance, he added a footnote on it to The Interpretation of Dreams (1900a), Standard Ed., 4, 318, and he summarized it at some length in two passages in his Introductory Lectures (1916-17), Lectures XI and XV. The reader should bear in mind the fact that Abel's pamphlet was published in 1884 and it would not be surprising if some of his findings were not supported by later philologists. This is especially true of his Egyptological comments, which were made before Erman had put Egyptian philology for the first time on a scientific basis. The quotations from Abel which are made here are translated without any modification in the spelling of his examples.
In my Interpretation of Dreams I made a statement about one of the findings of my analytic work which I did not then understand. I will repeat it here by way of preface to this review: