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(a)German Editions:
1940 Some Elementary Lessons in Psycho-Analysis Int. Z. Psychoanal. Imago, 25 (1), 21-2. (In part.)
1941 Some Elementary Lessons in Psycho-Analysis G.W., 17, 141-7. (Complete.)
(b) English Translations:
Some Elementary Lessons in Psycho-Analysis 1940 Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 21 (1), 83-4. (In part.) (Tr. James Strachey.)
Some Elementary Lessons in Psycho-Analysis 1950 C.P., 5, 376-82. (Complete. Same translator.)
The present translation is a revised reprint of that published in 1950. The original part-publications were as a footnote to the first German issue of the Outline of Psycho-Analysis (1940a [1938]) and as an Appendix to the first English translation of that work.
The title of the original is in English. It was written in London, and the manuscript is dated October 20, 1938. But it remained a fragment. The Outline had been dropped early in the previous September—also a fragment, but a very much larger and more important one—and this was a new and different approach to the same problem. Cf. a fuller discussion in the Editor's Note to the Outline, p. 142 above.