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(a) German Editions:
1925 Notiz Über Den ‘Wunderblock’ Int. Z. Psychoanal., 11 (1), 1-5.
1925 Notiz Über Den ‘Wunderblock’ G.S., 6, 415-20.
1931 Notiz Über Den ‘Wunderblock’ Theoretische Schriften, 392-8.
1948 Notiz Über Den ‘Wunderblock’ G.W., 14, 3-8.
(b) English Translation::
‘A Note upon the “Mystic Writing-Pad”’ 1940 Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 21 (4), 469-74. (Tr. James Strachey.)
‘A Note upon the “Mystic Writing-Pad”’ 1950 C.P., 5, 175-80.
The present translation is a slightly corrected reprint of the one published in 1950, with some additional notes.
This paper was probably written in the autumn of 1924, for Freud reported in a letter to Abraham that he was revising it in November of that year (Jones, 1957, 124-5). The curious little apparatus, which is the basis of this ingenious and illuminating discussion of the conscious, preconscious and perceptual-conscious systems, is still quite easily obtainable, at least in Great Britain, under the trade name of ‘Printator’. The subject-matter of the paper will become much clearer if an actual specimen can be examined and dissected.