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(a) German Editions:
1923 Eine Teufelsneurose Im Siebzehnten Jahrhundert Imago, 9 (1), 1-34.
1924 Eine Teufelsneurose Im Siebzehnten Jahrhundert G.S., 10, 409-45.
1924 Eine Teufelsneurose Im Siebzehnten Jahrhundert Leipzig, Vienna and Zurich: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag. Pp. 43.
1928 Eine Teufelsneurose Im Siebzehnten Jahrhundert ‘Bibliophiles’ limited edition, with 7 plates. Leipzig, Vienna and Zurich: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag. Pp. 81.
1940 Eine Teufelsneurose Im Siebzehnten Jahrhundert G.W., 13, 317-53.
(b) English Translation::
‘A Neurosis of Demoniacal Possession in the Seventeenth Century’ 1925 C.P., 4, 436-72. (Tr. E. Glover.)
The present translation, under a new title, is a considerably modified version of the one published in 1925. The ‘Bibliophiles’ edition was produced for the 1928 Congress of German Bibliophiles in Vienna. It contained black and white reproductions of three of the paintings (representing the first, second and fifth appearances of the Devil) and of four folios of the manuscript.
This was written in the last months of 1922 (Jones, 1957, 105). The origin of the paper is sufficiently explained by Freud himself at the beginning of Section I (p. 73). Freud's interest in witchcraft, possession and allied phenomena was of long standing. It seems possible that it was stimulated by his studies at the Salpêtrière in 1885-6. Charcot himself had paid much attention to the historical aspects of neurosis, a fact referred to at more than one point in Freud's ‘Report’ on his visit to Paris (1956a [1886]). There is an account of a sixteenth-century case of possession at the beginning of Lecture XVI in the first set of Charcot's lectures translated by Freud (1886f) and a discussion