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(a) GERMAN EDITIONS:
1914 Zur Psychologie Des Gymnasiasten In Festschrift celebrating 50th anniversary of foundation of K. k. Erzherzog-Rainer Realgymnasium (October).
1926 Zur Psychologie Des Gymnasiasten Almanach 1927, 43-6.
1928 Zur Psychologie Des Gymnasiasten G.S., 11, 287-90.
1935 Zur Psychologie Des Gymnasiasten Z. psychoanal. Päd., 9, 307-10.
1946 Zur Psychologie Des Gymnasiasten G.W., 10, 204-7.
(b) ENGLISH TRANSLATION:
‘Some Reflections on Schoolboy Psychology’
The present translation, by James Strachey, now appears for the first time and, so far as is known, is the first to be published.
Between the ages of nine and seventeen (1865-1873) Freud was at school in Vienna at the ‘Leopoldstädter Kommunal-real- und Obergymnasium’, popularly known as the ‘Sperl-gymnasium’ from its location in the Sperlgasse. Its name was later changed to ‘K. k. Erzherzog-Rainer Realgymnasium’. This paper was written for a collective volume in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the school's foundation. In a letter to a school friend, written by Freud on June 16, 1873 ( Int. Z. Psychoanal. Imago, 26 (1941), 5), he gives an account of his leaving examination at the school. He mentions in particular the essay alluded to in the present paper (p. 242) on the subject of the choice of a profession, for which he was awarded a distinction mark. (See Freud, 1941, included in 1960a)