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(a) German Editions:
1940 Abriss Der Psychoanalyse Int. Z. Psychoanal. Imago, 25(1), 7-67.
1941 Abriss Der Psychoanalyse G.W., 17, 63-138.
(b) English Translation:
An Outline of Psycho-Analysis 1940 Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 21 (1), 27-82. (Tr. James Strachey.)
An Outline of Psycho-Analysis 1949 London: Hogarth Press and Institute of Psycho-Analysis. Pp. ix + 84. (Revised reprint of above in book form.)
An Outline of Psycho-Analysis 1949 New York: Norton. Pp. 127. (Reprint of above.)
The present is a considerably revised version of the translation published in 1949.
When this work was first published, both in German and English, it was accompanied by two long extracts from Freud's contemporary fragment ‘Some Elementary Lessons in Psycho-Analysis’ (1940b [1938]). These extracts appeared as a footnote in Chapter IV of the German version (see p. 158 below) and as an appendix in the English one. The fragment from which the extracts were drawn was published in full soon afterwards (it appears below on p. 279), and the footnote and appendix were consequently omitted in the subsequent reprints of the present work.
By an unfortunate oversight, the author's ‘Preface’ (p. 144 below) was omitted from the G. W. reprint and is thus only to be found in German in the Zeitschrift. It should be remarked that Volume XVII of the Gesammelte Werke, which was the first of its volumes to be published (in 1941), was also issued simultaneously with a different title-page and binding, as Schriften aus dem Nachlass (Posthumous Writings).