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(a) German Editions:
1937 Konstruktionen in Der Analyse Int. Z. Psychoanal, 23 (4), 459-69.
1950 Konstruktionen in Der Analyse G.W., 16, 43-56.
(b) English Translation:
‘Constructions in Analysis’ 1938 Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 19 (4), 377-87. (Tr. James Strachey.)
‘Constructions in Analysis’ 1950 C.P., 5, 358-71. (Revised reprint of above.)
The present translation is a corrected reprint of the one published in 1950.
This paper was published in December, 1937.
Though, as Freud remarks, constructions have received much less attention than interpretations in discussions of analytic technique, his own writings contain many allusions to them. There are two or three full-length examples of them in his case histories: in the ‘Rat Man’ analysis (1909d), Standard Ed., 10, 182 and 205, and in the ‘Wolf Man’ analysis (1918b). The whole latter case revolves around a construction; but the question is specifically discussed in Section V (Standard Ed., 17, 50 ff.). Finally, constructions played a large part in the case history of the homosexual girl (1920a), as is made plain in Section I (Standard Ed., 18, 152).
The paper ends with a discussion of a question in which Freud was much interested at this period—the distinction between what he described as ‘historical’ and ‘material’ truth.