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(a) German Editions:
1931 Über Libidinöse Typen Int. Z Psyckoanal, 17 (3), 313-16.
1934 Über Libidinöse Typen G.S., 12, 115-19.
1948 Über Libidinöse Typen G.W., 14, 509-13.
(b) English Translations:
‘Libidinal Types’ 1932 Psychoanal. Q., 1 (1), 3-6. (Tr. E. B.Jackson.)
‘Libidinal Types’ 1932 Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 13 (3), 277-80. (Tr. Joan Riviere.)
‘Libidinal Types’ 1950 C.P., 5, 247-51. (Revised reprint of above.)
The present translation is a corrected version of that published in 1950.
Like the next paper (‘Female Sexuality’), this was begun early in 1931 and finished during the summer. It is a late addition to the very small number of Freud's papers dealing with characterology. Though the topic crops up in a number of his writings (for instance, in the first half of Chapter III of The Ego and the Id (1923b), Standard Ed., 19, 28 ff.), only two of his previous works had been explicitly concerned with it: ‘Character and Anal Erotism’ (1908b) and ‘Some Character Types Met with in Psycho-Analytic Work’ (1916d). In the present work the subject is considered in the light of Freud's later, structural, view of the mind.