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(a) German Editions:
1923 ‘Psychoanalyse’ Und ‘Libidotheorie’ In Handwörterbuch der Sexualwissenschaft, ed. M. Marcuse, Bonn. Pp. 296-8 and 377-83.
1928 ‘Psychoanalyse’ Und ‘Libidotheorie’ G.S., 11, 201-23.
1940 ‘Psychoanalyse’ Und ‘Libidotheorie’ G.W., 13, 211-33.
(b) English Translation:
1942 Two Encyclopaedia Articles Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 23, 97-107. (Tr. James Strachey.)
1950 Two Encyclopaedia Articles C.P., 5, 107-35. (Tr. James Strachey.)
The present translation is that of 1950, slightly modified.
According to a note to be found in Gesammelte Schriften, 11, 201, these articles were written during the summer of 1922, that is to say, before Freud's final re-casting of his views upon the structure of the mind in The Ego and the Id (1923b). But the new views, though unexpressed in these articles, must already have been clearly present in his thoughts while he was writing them, for it was in September, 1922, at the Berlin International Psycho-Analytical Congress, which is actually mentioned in one of the articles (p. 248), that he first made public his newly-defined conceptions of ego, super-ego and id. A somewhat similarly-conceived didactic article, written not long afterwards for an American publication (1924f), takes these new ideas into account.
Psycho-Analysis is the name (1) of a procedure for the investigation of mental processes which are almost inaccessible in any other way, (2) of a method (based upon that investigation) for the treatment of neurotic disorders and (3) of a collection of psychological information obtained along those lines, which is gradually being accumulated into a new scientific discipline.